The Natural Style in Landscape Gardening 



know something from personal experience of the 

 campfire's charms. It is not hard to believe that 

 such persons would find a garden campfire on their 

 own grounds an appealing reminiscence of happy 

 experience. 



The garden has long been recognized as a happy 

 blend of those great elements of earth, air (or sky) , 

 plant life and water. The practical necessity of 

 water in some form in every garden has been over- 

 looked at times, particularly in America, and par- 

 ticularly by designers in the American natural 

 style. Just here they lost a point to the formal 

 designers who nearly always found room for some 

 fountain or pool. Now in this blend of elements 

 fire may have its place as well as earth and sky 

 and water, and its human appeal is just as primitive 

 and just as strong. 



Fire indeed is the one of these elements which 

 has oftenest been worshipped by men. Even the 

 professors of the purer and more spiritual religions 

 have frequently used fire in their sacrifices and 

 ceremonials ; and the flame upon the altar or upon 

 the domestic hearth still appeals to us as a definite 



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