The Natural Style in Landscape Gardemng 



less if it were not played under the open sky. The 

 spectators on the bleachers must still look up and 

 see the blue heavens even if the horizon is damned 

 with a circle of painted signs advertising the worst 

 brands of beer and tobacco. 



A more refined and lady-like approach to the 

 landscape is found in gardening. Gardening as 

 a polite domestic art is perhaps the most com- 

 plete combination of civilization and the landscape 

 which has yet been devised. If we press this on to 

 the point where it becomes really landscape garden- 

 ing it would surely deserve this description, for 

 what could landscape gardening be except such a 

 full and final fusion of the landscape w^ith the social 

 human artificial domestic garden? 



One who undertakes to study the native land- 

 scape with any thoroughness should properly ap- 

 proach the subject by studying the principal types 

 of native landscape. It will not do simply to study 

 the landscape in general. One must be more ana- 

 lytic and specific. 



As a matter of fact most persons in their primary 

 love of home found their love of landscape upon 



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