The Natural Style in Landscape Gardening 



The forester lives in the woods. To him the 

 landscape is full of trees. These are spread over 

 rocky mountain sides and interspersed with friendly 

 brooks. So the landscape takes on for the forester 

 a very special color and character. 



In America the pioneer has played a deeply sig- 

 nificant role. There have been generations of pion- 

 eers, from those who landed at Plymouth and 

 Jamestown to those who settled the plains and 

 captured the Oregon. This body of pioneers has 

 moved forward across the continent from one ocean 

 to the other with a slow, steady, indefeasible march. 

 For more than 200 years their campfires lighted the 

 way. Generation after generation of hardy men 

 and women lived roughly in the open or sheltered 

 by log huts or sod shanties. They lived very near 

 to the landscape. They loved it profoundly. Many 

 of them loved it so deeply that they could not bear 

 to share it with neighbors. As soon as the settle- 

 ments arrived and the landscape was invaded and 

 despoiled, the pioneers moved on. 



To understand anything of American history it 

 is necessary to understand these pioneers, and to un- 



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