The Natural Style in landscape Gardening 



with it the dominating landscape theme. Count- 

 less beautiful views show up and down its stretches. 

 Masses of hills or trees come into view at every 

 bend. Endless pictures are reflected in its quiet 

 reaches, and endless songs go up from its rocky 

 riffles. Any park lying along almost any river 

 would quite certainly be dominated by the river 

 motive. 



In the Muddy Brook Parkway, Boston, Mr. 

 Frederick Law Olmsted, Sr., gave us a small but 

 highly refined example of this type of landscape 

 motive. 



The prairie motive: Personally, just to satisfy 

 my own artistic aspirations, I would like to make a 

 prairie park. I would like to have a few miles of 

 perfectly flat land in Central or Western Kansas, 

 and I would like to have it lie where the level hori- 

 zon would form an unbroken circle some fifteen 

 miles in radius. This level line would be my mo- 

 tive, and I would put in only enough upright lines 

 to give the little necessary artistic contrast and to 

 supply a scale of distances. I would have a lawn 

 of buffalo grass furnished with the exceptionally 



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