CHAPTER X 



LANDSCAPE-GARDENING FOR ARID AND 

 SEMI-ARID REGIONS 



SINCE writing the previous chapters, the follow- 

 ing communication, which will serve as a text for 

 the present one, has been received from the Editor 

 of the Rural Science Series: 



"I was standing in the office of one of the educa- 

 tional institutions of a western state looking out 

 at the bare bald hills. A woman in the office who 

 had recently been East, remarked to me that in the 

 part of the country she visited all the hills were 

 spoiled by the forests. She said it was a relief to 

 get back to the West where the hills stood out by 

 themselves, and she could see all the outlines and 

 all the shadows and not have them covered by a mere 

 growth of trees. This raises a very important ques- 

 tion for half of the geographical area of our country. 

 What is to be the type of landscape-gardening in the 

 great treeless or semi-arid West where millions of 



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