The Natural Style in Landscape Gardening 



In general, the entrance to the park will be at 

 some distance from the culminating feature, if not 

 indeed at the farthest remove from it. If contrari- 

 wise, one should make his entrance directly upon 

 the main show, or immediately facing the grand 

 view, the rest of the visit to the park might better 

 be abandoned, for it will be a depressing down 

 grade run to an anticlimax. For this reason it is 

 quite possible, in the anxiety to make a good first 

 impression, to overdo the treatment of the park en- 

 trance. I could name more than one park in Amer- 

 ica in which one sees nothing further to compare 

 with the blaze of ornament which greets him at the 

 front gate. 



I hesitate to lay it down as a general rule, but I 

 have a strong feeling that it is good technic to 

 place the entrance somewhere near the lowest level 

 of the park. By this expedient, the visitor will see 

 most of the scenery as he drives the road on an up 

 grade. Photographers and painters know that the 

 picturesque compositions which gather along a 

 roadway are usually seen to best advantage when 

 viewed toward the rising grade. In the strongest 



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