The Natural Style in Landscape Gardening 



cases these experiments have been successful. They 

 have proved that it is possible to find plastic figures 

 or groups which will fit artistically into a natural- 

 istic or semi-naturalistic environment. More than 

 that could hardly be claimed; and it would have 

 to be understood that sculpture of all sorts nearly 

 always comports better with the formal garden. 



Aside from these special features of interest every 

 garden, even the wildest, needs some of the furni- 

 ture of civilization. The human man still demands 

 his creature comforts. 



Whoever has gone house hunting, and, piloted 

 about by the dapper agent, has wandered from 

 one empty tenement to another, has acquired in an 

 intense form the feeling which goes also with the 

 unfurnished garden. The rooms are bare, blank, 

 chill and cheerless. That place which, with a few 

 chairs and tables, a picture and a ribbon, was a 

 bright and habitable home, is now more dreary than 

 a cemetery; and the dapper house agent reminds 

 one painfully of the cheerful businesslike under- 

 taker. The difference between a living home and 

 a dead empty house of course lies in the human 



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