LANDSCAPE GARDENING TREATISE ON THE GENERAL By F. A. WAUGH Professor of Horticulture, University of Vermont and ILLUSTRATED NEW YORK ORANGE JUDD COMPANY 1905 Gift 5-23-31 PREFACE. A thorough study of the principles of good taste in landscape gardening would be of measurable benefit to two classes of persons,-first, to practicing landscape gardeners; and second, to the rest of mankind. Such a study is probably more important for the latter class, partly because they constitute a larger company, and partly because they control the practice of the gardeners more than the gardeners' practice controls the public taste. There are wonderful opportunities open to most persons in the enjoyment of the beauties of landscape. Many of these opportunities are lost or only half realized, because people do not know how to analyze and understand a landscape. A study of the underlying principles of landscape art ought to give one the ability to analyze a landscape picture, and to see the various elements of beauty in it. It ought also to furnish a proper basis for the criticism of pictorial effects, and at the same time to improve the student's taste in such matters. These things appear to me to be of first impor tance, so that I have always conducted my classes on the assumption that, while no student is likely to become a landscape gardener, all are bound to see many of the beautiful pictures in Nature's gallery, and these they ought to understand and enjoy. At the same time, it cannot be disputed that a better appreciation of the fundamental principles which govern in picture-making, outdoors on the lawn, or |