The Natural Style in Landscape Gardening 



rich and interesting flora of that section, Anem- 

 one Carolina, Astragalus missouriensis, Baptisia 

 australis, Salvia grandiflora, Asclepias varticillata, 

 Tradescantia virginica, and never forgetting Opun- 

 tia rafinesquii. Here a man might stand quietly 

 in the center of a stable horizontal world with crea- 

 tion all open around and above him, with himself 

 the center of it, the very type of our whole north- 

 ern anthropocentric philosophy. 



The Connecticut motive: This reference to the 

 prairie motive introduces us to a much more com- 

 plex notion, the motive made up of several ele- 

 ments, the relationships of which may fluctuate 

 from paragraph to paragraph. I once heard an art 

 critic say of certain paintings that they looked very 

 Connecticut. The landscape gardener who could 

 make a park look very Connecticut would plainly 

 be obliged to use the Connecticut motive. This mo- 

 tive would be a compound of several simple ele- 

 ments, such as 



a. Low rounded hills. 



b. Scattering forest of mixed chestnut, oak 

 and pine. 



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