The Natural Style in Landscape Gardening 



Lucia, the Wedding March from Lohengrin, Haen- 

 del's Largo, and even some symphonic selections, 

 and then I require them to return to me programs 

 of landscapes which would awaken the same sen- 

 timents. The exercise is perfectly simple and prac- 

 tical, and gives better and more uniform results 

 than many of the experiments in chemistry. 



Any one will find it profitable to use music in 

 this way, and to practice himself in the interpre- 

 tation of music into landscape and landscape into 

 music. It does not require any special musical edu- 

 cation any more than it demands a specialized edu- 

 cation in landscape. 



In spite of our abject poverty of spiritual lan- 

 guage, it may be worth while for us before drop- 

 ping this subject to try to specify some of the spirit- 

 ual elements or products of landscape. 



And first of all the landscape breathes with the 

 spirit of life. There may be a perfectly dead land- 

 scape on the moon, but that is not our planet. 

 Our world teems with life. From the infinitesi- 

 mal microbe, swarming by millions in the drop of 

 water, to the crowding trees in the forest there is 



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