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Title: American homes and gardens
Identifier: americanhomesgar81911newy (find matches)
Year: 1905 (1900s)
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Subjects: Architecture, Domestic; Landscape gardening
Publisher: New York : Munn and Co
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424 AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS December, 1911
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There is a spacious breadth in the design of this garden, free from the cramped feeling imposed by many other gardens less agreeably designed gardens and the care given them in the sixteenth century, Sir Thomas More speaks. Of the gardens of Italy, with their formal beauty, which shows the blending of human plan with nature's wealth of material, give, perhaps, the nearest approach the West has to that peculiar beauty born of mys- ;P h £» yptg** SH ?&?** // / -- x* Pn > ■ x« u : 1 i 1 1 fl 7 ,; ■ ~ ; \/./-r-.-.-,-,-^. 'i / .k 1 he ground plan and key to the ingenious maze in the Olcott garden ticism and symbol which belong invariably to the East. And to the creative mind there is another joy attached to the garden, which lies in the very making of it, and is that which the artist in any department must feel. Here is created something new, which has brought, as one may say, something out of nothing, and which shows the beauty it is possible to obtain by arranging according to human plan such materials as nature abundantly furnishes. The ma- terials of the artist or the amateur are in this case trees, flowers, spaces of lawn, or masses of shrubs. These are the materials of which gardens are made, and those who have planned even a small flower bed, in such a spirit, have felt in some degree the peculiar pleasure which can come to the artist in them. The greatest number and variety of ma- terials and the widest range of problems are offered to the landscape architect to bring into harmony, for these are not limited to growing things alone, but include masonry, the making of roads and paths, the setting of objets d'art, and even the erection of pergolas and buildings and the making of pools. The illustrations accompanying this article show all of these, and are all from one enclosure. The planning of a large garden, indeed, calls into requisition a knowledge of many arts and sciences, and besides these a practical experience which can foretell growth and anticipate results which are not only to be immediate, but also for years in the future. For the peculiarity of this art is that we must wait long for the realization of plans, which necessitates hope and patience on the part of the owner as well as, in a high degree, in the one who made the plans and can see imaginatively what they represent. It is years after, as a rule, before the full beauty of a garden can be apprehended

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