The Natural Style in Landscape Gardening 



tance to bear restatement.* A set of landscape ex- 

 ercises is made up, each one of which calls direct 

 attention to some beautiful feature. 

 Here are sample exercises : 



No. 1. Trees. Where is the finest tree in town? 

 What kind of a tree is it? How old? What is its 

 history? 



No. 2. Views. Where is the best view or outlook 

 in town? What can you see from this point? How 

 might this view be improved? 



And so on. The characteristic feature of each ex- 

 ercise is that it sends the pupil to seek something 

 beautiful, it leads him to consider carefully the re- 

 lationships which influence its effect, it helps him to 

 make comparisons, while appealing frankly to his 

 personal preference (and this is fundamentally im- 

 portant), it urges on his thought some reasons for 

 his opinion. 



When a series of such exercises, carefully 

 planned and fairly superintended, are carried out 

 in school, they lead to a pretty thorough acquaint- 



* This plan of school instruction is more fully stated in 

 my book "The Landscape Beautiful." 



