" Laying out grounds may be considered a liberal 

 art, in some sort like poetry and painting." 



— Wordsworth. 



It seemed to my friend that the creation of a 

 landscape-garden offered to the proper muse the 

 most magnificent of opportunities. Here indeed was 

 the fairest field for the display of the imagination, in 

 the endless combining of forms of novel beauty." 



—Poe. 



