The Natural Style in Landscape Gardening 



oaks. These give the country its character. They 

 are the natural landscape motive. As such they 

 could be readily adopted by the artist designing a 

 naturalistic park reserve in this country. It would 

 then become his opportunity to present the beauty 

 of the oak trees from as many points of view and in 

 as many different ways as possible. 



The Florida pine-tree motive : In central Flor- 

 ida the tall, straight, sparsely scattered pine trees 

 dominate the landscape. Here they are always as- 

 sociated with the scrub palmetto, forming an eco- 

 logical group (see page 51) which, however, may 

 still be called the pine-tree motive. 



The birch-tree motive : On the dry hill-side pas- 

 tures of New England the birches are very much 

 at home. The squaw birch, or gray birch, in par- 

 ticular may be accepted as the most characteristic 

 plant. It is usually associated with other plants 

 (see page 51), and these together form a great 

 variety of effective pictures. The young sprouts, 

 the crowded young trees, the graceful mature 

 groups, or the hoary old specimens are all beautiful, 

 so that the development of the birch tree idea has 



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