Landscape Gardening 



flood that swept the main street of the 

 village, and littered it with fallen trunks 

 and limbs twisted off in its whirling flight. 

 As brief, but more violent a gale I have 

 seen in Maine, cutting a forest into wind- 

 rows, as a mower would cut grass with his 

 scythe. 



To make a landscape garden one must 

 live with it and study it, putting in a touch quirts study. 

 here and there, as the painter treats his 

 canvas, now effacing a spot, again adding 

 an accent, blending, harmonizing, even 

 destroying, if need be, and beginning 

 once more. Advice you may listen to, 

 but be not over-hasty to accept sugges- 

 tion. Weigh each idea well before you 

 admit it, look at it from all sides, for it 

 will always have more than one. It is you 

 who will have to live with the picture, and 

 it is your mind that should lend the indi- 

 viduality that will make the scene your 

 own. It is, after all, the personal touch 

 that is worth while. 



A fair woman, who is a summer neigh- 

 bor of ours, took me the other day through 

 interesting grounds, which her own taste 

 and care had brought into a wild and yet 

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