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THE GUIDE TO NATURE 



THE HOME OF LUKE VINCENT LOCKWOOD, RIVERSIDE, CONNECTICUT. 



artificially only through unusual skill, 

 the attempt to duplicate artificially 

 such a natural thing is almost impious. 

 Mr. Shedd of Greenwich, skillful 

 writer of aphorisms, several years ago 

 wrote this suggestive sentence, "If you 

 can't have a tiger, get a cat." Another 

 of the editor's friends says, "If you 

 can't have a lake and waterfowl, get a 

 frog pond and a goose" A valuable 

 principle is enshrined within these 

 aphorisms. I would not envy a man 

 with a big lake and many waterfowl if 

 I had a frog pond and one goose, but 

 there is a more satisfactory middle 

 ground that Mr. Lockwood appears to 

 have discovered unaided. He has taken 

 a small brook and developed not a 

 creek but an interesting ravine that of- 

 fers all the brook's value from the artis- 

 tic, aesthetic and soul satisfying point 

 of view. The lake is not large, but its 

 landscape value gives it the effect of 

 size. He has skilfully developed and 

 widened the little brook into a pictur- 

 esque, embroidered pool of rather ela- 

 borate dimensions, fern embroidered. 



flower sprinkled, satisfying. A charm- 

 ing effect has been secured by a clear 

 space kept as a perfect lawn, yet in 

 close proximity to a natural ravine and 

 a fern fringed, mimic precipice. 



The accompanying illustrations show 

 only a few aspects of this delightful 

 rock garden. Mr. Lockwood is to be 

 congratulated upon having so beauti- 

 ful a home in so delightful a setting, 

 where the primitive wild is so pleasing- 

 ly blended with the formality of the 

 modern gardener's landscape. 



The discussion that has been going 

 on in "Science" of various syncronized 

 rythmic actions in groups of the lower 

 animals has lately brought out the cu- 

 rious habit of the larvae fall web-worm- 

 (Hyphantria cunea). Every few min- 

 utes, the caterpillars start swaying 

 their bodies from side to side in per- 

 fect unison, keep it up for a minute or 

 so, and then stop. No cause yet ap- 

 pears. This whole field offers an un- 

 commonly good chance for the ama- 

 teur observer. 



