The Natural Style in Landscape Gardening 



ing us an opportunity to see the magnificent forms 

 of the trees on the opposite shore, with their in- 

 verted images rippling toward us over the water. 

 Such is the paragraphic structure of the natural 

 park. 



The same method is applicable to all kinds of in- 

 formal composition. If the problem is a simple 

 border of mixed perennials along a garden wall, 

 we can adopt a leading motive and a paragraphic 

 treatment. Or if we are only trying to improve a 

 skyline we will divide it into paragraphs, giving 

 each section its own treatment, its climax and its 

 blend into the next section. 



It is easy to show, of course, that this method is 

 practically universal in art. Precisely the same 

 terms may be used to describe the structure of an 

 oration, a drama, or a good editorial in the Spring- 

 field Republican. Each has its theme, its succes- 

 sive paragraphs, its periods, its climaxes and its con- 

 clusion. Every musical composition has its theme, 

 it is divided into several movements, it is para- 

 graphed into strains, usually of sixteen measures 

 each, the strains are subdivided into bars, and each 



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