THE NATIVE LANDSCAPE 



WHETHER our foregoing definition of 

 the natural style is adequate or defec- 

 tive, it must be plain that any natural- 

 istic style of landscape gardening is largely de- 

 pendent on the native landscape. The ideas, mo- 

 tives, and methods must come mainly from nature. 

 Indeed, it would seem certain that any landscape 

 architect of any school must know and love the 

 landscape. Such knowledge and such sympathy 

 would be fundamentally and absolutely necessary. 

 Whenever the designer professes, however, to do 

 his landscape gardening in the natural style, it 

 would seem doubly incumbent on him to bring to 

 his work a critical understanding of nature's land- 

 scape and a love of the native landscape at once 

 ardent, sane, discriminating and balanced. A mere 

 boyish enthusiasm will not answer. It must be the 

 true, tried and fixed love of maturity. 



Thus it becomes the first and perhaps the most 



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