The Natural Style in Landscape Gardening 



dens instead of one, and each of these gardens has 

 its own organization. The happy blending of these 

 several compartments along their lines of juncture, 

 while preserving their essential character within, is 

 a part of the landscape gardener's art. So far as 

 this art has any technic, it follows the rules dis- 

 cussed elsewhere for the blending of groups in 

 planting. 



In very large parks, however, the various sec- 

 tions, or certain of them, may become so large as 

 to require treatment like separate parks. A big 

 state park of fifty square miles, for example, might 

 have a public camp ground along the lake shore, a 

 forest reserve on the mountain sides, and a fair 

 grounds at one corner. These three enterprises 

 would present practically three problems and would 

 call for three park designs. Every work of art 

 must fall into commensurable limits, that is within 

 such range that one man at one time and place can 

 comprehend and enjoy the whole. When it re- 

 quires three days to perform one musical composi- 

 tion it ceases to be a work of art and becomes a gen- 

 eral exhibition. 



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