The Natural Style in Landscape Gardening 



dener may well introduce this unit with consider- 

 ably greater frequency than nature does. 



However, in any pictorial composition, specimens 

 must be introduced with great restraint. It may be 

 considered false composition to make more than one 

 specimen visible in any one view. Perhaps it will 

 be safe to say that any first-class specimen should 

 be so placed as to form the culmination of a para- 

 graph. Certainly if an individual tree is worth 

 keeping as a specimen it must be worthy of con- 

 siderable emphasis, an emphasis which it could pos- 

 sibly have at no other point in the composition. 



The group of two seems to be habitually avoided 

 by landscape gardeners. Yet I am convinced that 

 this is due to an unfounded prejudice. In many 

 years of sketching and photographing, seeking 

 about for attractive compositions, I have repeatedly 

 been drawn to admire two trees of a species stand- 

 ing faithfully together in the pasture, in the fence 

 row or on the hillside. Indeed I can hardly think 

 of any other unit which has so often attracted my 

 pencil or my camera. Every one, I suppose, has a 

 somewhat human feeling about trees, as though 



