The Natural Style in Landscape Gardening 



Indian blanket brilliant with the loudest yellows, 

 reds, and blues, but beautiful beyond all gainsay- 

 ing. Or we get a shelfful of old Bavarian peasant 

 pottery, or we see the Swede girls in their native 

 costumes, and we are lost in wonder that anything 

 so absolutely opposed to our teaching can be so 

 thoroughly good. For a moment we may have a 

 suspicion that nature knows her own game as well 

 as we do, and is quite as willing to have the world 

 beautiful in her own way as after any manner 

 which we can teach her. 



Even the artists themselves sometimes attempt 

 the use of raw colors. One has only to visit the 

 modern art shows to see that some of the most 

 thoughtful workers have decided that white light 

 and the human eye can be depended on to resolve 

 the primary colors into harmonious effects even 

 where a scientific analysis might demonstrate their 

 utter incompatibility. 



All of which is respectfully submitted to show 

 why, whenever I hear of some precious lady who 

 is going to make a pink garden or a purple garden, 

 I look the other way and smile. It would be too 



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