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Updated: July 10, 2025
Bryn Mawr was one of the newer landscape-gardened of our city suburbs, with curving roads, grass-plots, an art nouveau railroad station, shrubs and poplar sticks set out along the cement sidewalks, in an effort to disguise the rawness of the prairie pancake that the contractors had parcelled into lots.
How very interesting!" By which she meant that she was not interested at all. "You mean that you would like it landscape-gardened?" Really, she was perverse. She had turned her back to the view which was ripping, out of her northern window. I could tell that she habitually turned her back on it. "Oh, landscape-gardened? Well, it would improve it, no doubt. But it would take generations to do it.
English rivers are beautiful enough in a restrained, well-managed, landscape-gardened sort of way; but Americans do not enthuse over an English river because of what it is in itself, but because it happens to be the Thames or the Avon because of the distinguished characters in history whose names are associated with it. Hades gets much of its reputation the same way.
To the most distinguished circle of that kind in London, our painter Reynolds belonged. In the eighteenth century, society had also begun to divide its time in modern fashion between town and country. Many of the large country houses of to-day, and nearly all the landscape-gardened parks, belong to that date. Nevertheless it was a time of great artificiality of life.
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