THE NATURAL STYLE IN LAND- 

 SCAPE GARDENING 



WHAT IS MEANT 



ALL the older men and women now living 

 whose recollections of garden matters run 

 back, say into the seventies, will remember 

 the violent controversy then raging between the 

 advocates of the formal garden on the one side 

 and of the natural style on the other. Those were 

 days of violent partizanship in all matters. In poli- 

 tics and religion people were habitually intolerant. 

 In certain families it was held that to vote the demo- 

 cratic ticket was prima facie evidence of murder, 

 arson, and embezzlement of funds. In other circles 

 it was fully agreed that unless one were immersed 

 into a particular church he would surely land in 

 the eternal fires. Amongst people trained in this 

 temper the ardent disagreements over garden style 

 were perfectly natural and necessary. 



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