PRINCIPLES OF STRUCTURAL COM- 

 POSITION 



THOSE who have not considered the matter 

 are apt to think that a garden in the natural 

 style has no structure, that it is a merely ac- 

 cidental succession of parts. This notion is wrong, 

 of course. The home garden, public park or forest 

 reserve intelligently designed in the natural style 

 has just as definite and logical a plan as the best 

 geometrical garden. Its structure follows laws 

 just as plain and necessary. There are, to be sure, 

 a great many gardens to be found in an alleged nat- 

 ural style which truly have neither rhyme nor rea- 

 son. They have no plan nor structure. They were 

 not designed. They just grew, like Topsy. No — 

 that's assigning them too much credit, for a garden 

 which grows up honestly round the family life of 

 owners, or a park that grows up decently in the 

 hands of a devoted superintendent, often shows a 

 genuine form and structure given to it by the natu- 



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