The Natural Style in Landscape Gardening 



"forest cui'e." It is well known that many sana- 

 toria have been established in the forests and that 

 thousands of men and women have found life and 

 health simply in being exposed to the healing in- 

 fluence of the crowded trees. 



Besides these four main types of landscape, there 

 are minor types of considerable importance. There 

 are great rivers which throughout their entire 

 courses completely dominate the landscape. They 

 establish its character. Any one who is to know 

 the landscape should know some of the great riv- 

 ers and should have felt their spell. 



The little brooks too are well worthy of acquaint- 

 ance. As they sing and gurgle down through the 

 forests or roar down the mountainside, they too have 

 a story to tell. It is a story to which every man 

 and woman ought to listen. 



There are many sections of country which could 

 not be called mountainous, but which are charac- 

 terized by their rolling hills. Such hilly country, 

 whether found in central New York, Missouri, or 

 Bohemia, has a character of its own. It is neither 

 plains nor mountains, but a kind of human com- 



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