The Natural Style in Landscape Gardening 



vented for them. This naming of the parts, e. g., 

 "The Upper Fells," "The Greeting," "The 

 Wooded Island" is significant, for it indicates that 

 to each of these parts the artist wished to give a 

 character of its own. This little trick was peculiar 

 to Olmsted and has not even been well imitated by 

 anybody since his day. 



Even in the small private garden, the same 

 method of subdivision has to be followed to some 

 extent. The massing of wild flowers should be ap- 

 pointed to one section, the open lawn with its cro- 

 quet ground should have its own allotment, the big 

 shade trees belong in another quarter and the ever- 

 greens still elsewhere. It may not be possible to 

 develop these several characters so completely as in 

 the larger spaces of a big park, but the essential 

 structure is there just the same. A coffee mill is 

 not so big as a turbine steamship, but it has its own 

 parts and structure quite as truly. 



It is not to be understood that these parts in a 

 natural park or garden are to be separated from 

 each other by distinct lines in any case. If they are 

 set apart by high walls, then we have several gar- 



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