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dooryard fence and the mathematical style of gardening long 

 remained. A reaction set in against this style of planting, and 

 the pendulum swung to the opposite extreme. Apostles of 

 natural gardening arose who would place the house in a pasture 

 and plant dead trees to simulate nature. Out of the controversy 

 has come our modern style of gardening. This aims to inter- 

 pret and emphasize the beauties of nature, but to eliminate her 

 faults. 



The two types of gardening still persist, the geometric or 

 artificial, with its wealth of pattern beds, exotic plants and 



Fig. I. — Gracefully massed shrubbery — Nature's own planting. 



ornaments, and the natural, with its more easy and graceful 

 lines and lack of pronovmced features. Two expressions sug- 

 gest themselves as possible in the natural treatment of a place. 

 These are known as the picturesque and the beautiful. The 

 picturesque is in keeping only upon rough or rocky surfaces, 

 or where the trees give evidence of battling with the elements. 

 The beautiful is in keeping with smooth and grassy slopes, 

 spreading trees, wealth of foliage and flowers. It is the expres- 

 sion to which most farm homes more easily lend themselves. 



That landscape gardening is a fine art, offering scope for the 

 highest artistic faculties, should not deter the one who is not 



