The close-cropped lawn is beautiful in the eyes of a people whose inherited bent it is to readily find pleasure in contemplating a well-preserved pasture or grazing land.
For the aesthetic purpose the lawn is a cow pasture; and in some cases today--where the expensiveness of the attendant circumstances bars out any imputation of thrift--the idyl of the dolicho-blond is rehabilitated in the introduction of a cow into a lawn or private ground.

In such cases the cow made use of is commonly of an expensive breed.

The vulgar suggestion of thrift, which is nearly inseparable from the cow, is a standing objection to the decorative use of this animal.

So that in all cases, except where luxurious surroundings negate this suggestion, the use of the cow as an object of taste must be avoided.

Where the predilection for some grazing animal to fill out the suggestion of the pasture is too strong to be suppressed, the cow's place is often given to some more or less inadequate substitute, such as deer, antelopes, or some such exotic beast.