The Natural Style in Landscape Gardening 



tance to bear restatement.* A set of landscape ex- 

 ercises is made up, each one of which calls direct 

 attention to some beautiful feature. 

 Here are sample exercises : 



No. 1. Trees. Where is the finest tree in town? 

 What kind of a tree is it? How old? What is its 

 history? 



No. 2. Views. Where is the best view or outlook 

 in town ? What can you see from this point ? How 

 might this view be improved? 



And so on. The characteristic feature of each ex- 

 ercise is that it sends the pupil to seek something 

 beautiful, it leads him to consider carefully the re- 

 lationships which influence its effect, it helps him to 

 make comparisons, while appealing frankly to his 

 personal preference (and this is fundamentally im- 

 portant), it urges on his thought some reasons for 

 his opinion. 



When a series of such exercises, carefully 

 planned and fairly superintended, are carried out 

 in school, they lead to a pretty thorough acquaint- 



* This plan of school instruction is more fully stated in 

 my book "The Landscape Beautiful." 



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