LANDSCAPE GARDENING STUDIES 



(1) A park, as a pleasure ground, should be set 

 apart and isolated as completely as art can con- 

 trive it from sound and sight of the surrounding 

 city; and (2) On the same line of endeavor the 

 interior of the pleasure ground should be made 

 to suggest woodland and meadow scenery so 

 laid out as to afford convenient and agreeable 

 access, by means of carriage and bridle roads 

 and footpaths, to all points of interest and land- 

 scape charm. 



Such a treatment would also assume that while 

 every condition necessary for the comfort and 

 enjoyment of the public should be kept clearly 

 in view, the landscape should be made to take 

 coherent and artistic shape from the original 

 peculiar genius or idiosyncrasy of the place. 



Under these terms public buildings could not be 

 generally included as part and parcel of the essen- 

 tial scheme of the park, but they would properly 

 find special territories of their own on the borders 

 of the main pleasure ground, where they could 

 be screened with thickly planted trees, and given 

 a landscape treatment suitable to their character. 



In order to explain what I consider an ideal 

 plan, I beg leave to call attention to the peculiarly 

 fortunate outline and configuration of the pro- 

 posed park. At present it is intended to cover 

 approximately three hundred and fifty acres, 

 which lie in a space bounded by Pennsylvania 

 Avenue and B Street, S. W., with the Capitol 

 looming up at the east, and Washington Monu- 

 ment at the west. An oblong territory occupied 



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