Chapter 1: Principles of Landscape Gardening

• The principles of landscape gardening art
• Gardening authors on the ancient style
• Gardening authors on the modern style
• Other writers who have treated of landscape-gardening
• Archibald Alison on works of art
• Design objectives
• Objects made beautiful by composition
• Design in the ancient style of landscape-gardening
• Regular forms - Leibnitz and Montesquieu
• Regularity and uniformity in design
• Design is essential in landscape-gardening
• Landscape design in the modern style
• Landscape-gardeners in the modern style
• Fitness as a source of relative beauty
• The doctrine of fitness in laying out grounds
• Utility as source of relative beauty of forms
• Accidental association as a source of relative beauties
• Appropriation as a source of beauty
• The chief object of all the imitative arts
• The peculiar beauties of landscape gardening
• The principles of imitative landscape-gardening
• The difference between landscape gardening and painting
• Principles of composition for the landscape-gardener
• The imitation of nature - mimesis - by the landscape gardener
• The visible hand of man in natural style gardens
• An illustration of the theory of landscape-gardening
• Unity as a design principle
• Truth to nature as a design principle
• Disposition of parts, forms, masses colours and light
• Compositional connection between parts
• Relationships between parts and groups
• Colour composition
• Light and shade in gardens and landscapes
• The sky, the cows, and the sheep
• Natural expression of melancholy and grandeur
• Picturesque poetic, or sentimental expression
• Picturesque expression
• Picturesque woods and ground landform
• Other examples of picturesque beauty

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