The Natural Style in Landscape Gardening 



works of Shakespeare. It was a curious place — I 

 am sure some persons found it interesting. To 

 me it stands as a first-class illustration of the liter- 

 ary or extrinsic or accidental motive. This is cer- 

 tainly not the highest type of landscape motive, 

 but it is perfectly legitimate, nevertheless. 



Possibly it may make this important matter of 

 motives clearer to summarize what has been said by 

 a rough sort of classification. It is clear that the 

 more usual landscape motives fall into the follow- 

 ing groups: 



1. Topographic motives, such as prairie, moun- 

 tains, rivers, lakes. 



2. Tree motives, belonging primarily to those 

 natural landscapes which are dominated by some 

 single species. This motive species is usually as- 

 sociated with other secondary species, which then 

 become integral to the theme. 



3. Garden flower motives, such as sunflower, the 

 hollyhock, and hundreds more, suited for use chiefly 

 in small gardens. 



4. Historic, literary and other extraneous mo- 

 tives. 



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