The Natural Style in Landscape Gardening 



able for the entrance to such a park. If we are 

 planning a riverside park, we ought to have a 

 glimpse of the river from the entrance, or at least 

 some planting or some sculptured setting to suggest 

 the flowing water. If we are designing a cemetery 

 park the quiet and solemn character of the place 

 should be plainly signified at the entrance. I know 

 a certain woodland cemetery which has a truly gor- 

 geous bed of cannas and coleus at the entrance, fit 

 for Monte Carlo or Coney Island. 



From the entrance forward the natural park is 

 developed in a sort of panorama. The visitor is 

 led from point to point, where he sees picture after 

 picture, some of pleasing foregrounds filled with 

 flowers, some of quiet masses of trees in middle 

 ground, and some inspiring outlooks to distant 

 landscapes. These points are connected by a suit- 

 able path or roadway which forms the true back- 

 bone of the garden structure. 



These successive pictures, however, should bear 

 a very definite relationship to one another. First 

 of all, each one should present the leading motive 

 in some phase of its development. If we are using 



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