of shade or wanting in natural picturesqueness—these ideals 
and conceptions were, perforce, excluded from thej problem of 
villa design. The two kinds of gardening serve different pur¬ 
poses and belong to different conditions. Each has its own 
beauty, each is perfectly legitimate; both systemss alike com¬ 
pel nature to do the designer’s bidding, both inwolve the re¬ 
modeling of the earth’s surface, the destruction of some of 
nature’s productions, the recreation or substitutiom of others. 
But they proceed upon different lines, by different methods, 
The Italian Formal Garden 
vast park, with its drives for horseback riding, itss brooks and 
bridges, its covers for game, its preserves for dleer, all that 
was peculiar and essential to the life of the Englissh or French 
nobleman, was wholly out of the question here. .All the ideas 
and conceptions of landscape gardening which, imherited from 
our English and French ancestors, we have deriveed from their 
ideal of the forest park, with its vast expanses of gmass, thickets 
and trees, trimmed out and smoothed down by thie gardener’s 
care, and extended by art over other expanses at ffirst destitute 
Ilex Tunnel 
LONG NATURAL ARBORS’ 
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