The Natural Style in Landscape Gardening 



assist more in the enlargement of humanity. When 

 these wide plains are beautifully spangled with 

 native flowers, when they are swept into billows by 

 summer winds, when they are capped by rolling 

 mountains of cloud, when they are ablaze with great 

 prairie fires, when they take on any of their other 

 native aspects they become tremendous, they pre- 

 sent magnificent and tragic spectacles which leave 

 the human mind as profoundly moved as it can ever 

 be by the sea or mountains. Yes, the plains must 

 always be reckoned as one of the great types of 

 landscape. 



The forests are more friendly and familiar. 

 There is more of the feeling of domesticity about 

 them. It is a strange fact that in the early set- 

 tlement of America pioneers who had their choice 

 avoided the prairies and settled first among the for- 

 ests, even though they were there compelled to clear 

 away the trees with infinite labor to make fields 

 for farming. The natural human love for the 

 forest landscape needs nothing more than mention. 

 It is worth while to recall, however, how this has 

 been put to special use in such enterprises as the 



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