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MANUAL OF GARDENING 



not, by accident, allow some tree to grow, were it not that it 

 is so! 



Of course these remarks about the lawn are meant for those 

 countries where greensward is the natural ground cover. In 

 the South and in arid countries, greensward is not the prevail- 

 ing feature of the landscape, and in. these regions the landscape 

 design may take on a wholly different character, if the work is 

 to be nature-hke. We have not yet developed other concep- 

 tions of landscape work to any perfect extent, and we inject the 



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A house. 



English greensward treatment even into deserts. We may 

 look for the time when a brown landscape garden may be made 

 in a brown country ; and it may be good art not to attempt a 

 broad open center in regions in which undergrowth rather than 

 sod is the natural ground cover. In parts of the United States 

 we are developing a good Spanish-American architecture ; per- 

 haps we may develop a recognized comparable landscape treat- 

 ment as an artistic expression. 



Birds; and cats. 



The picture in the landscape is not complete without birds, 

 and the birds should comprise more species than Enghsh 



