The Natural Style in Landscape Gardening 



to the utmost all the natural scenery. Every good 

 view, within or without the park or estate, should 

 be fully developed. This development will require 

 at least three things : First the line of the best view 

 must be determined and kept open; second, this 

 view must be framed by suitable plantings; third, 

 inferior views must be blocked out or reduced to 

 mere promissory glimpses. 



As a rule such special views require further to 

 be fixed, marked and advertised by placing at the 

 optimum point of observation an appropriate seat, 

 carriage turn, rest house or some similar accessory. 

 Thus the stranger is directed unmistakably to the 

 main feature, the desirable vista or the glorious 

 outlook. 



In formal garden design it is considered abso- 

 lutely obligatory that each axis shall terminate upon 

 some adequate object. Similarly in informal design 

 each vista should terminate clearly and definitively 

 upon some satisfactory object. There should be 

 some hill, mountain, lake, church spire or other 

 definite object of interest or beauty upon which 

 the open vista clearly centers. To build up a long 



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