The Natural Style in Landscape Gardening 



the paragraphic period we would usually find the 

 following features : 



1. The clearest expression of the paragraphic 

 episode — the culmination of the particular phase 

 of the leading motive here under development. 



2. The principal change in horizontal direction 

 of the roadway. 



3. The principal change of grade. 



4. The principal features of architectural or or- 

 namental emphasis. 



5. The principal change in plantings. 



As an illustration we may suppose that the first 

 section of our afternoon drive takes us on a long 

 sweep to the westward with the warm sun in our 

 faces and the wind at the left. We are jogging 

 comfortably along on a practically level road, but 

 with an up grade varying from nothing to two per 

 cent. We are passing across a level meadow land 

 spangled with buttercups and daisies. Here and 

 there at wide interA^als stand fine specimens of white 

 oak, representative of the deciduous forest, the lead- 

 ing motive of our composition and the subject of 

 our afternoon's enjoyment. In front of us we see 



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