The Natural Style in Landscape Gardening 



offering to teach the sum of garden art m one les- 

 son. The paragraphic art has been known in litera- 

 ture almost since literature began, yet there are 

 only a few writers who give a sound paragraphic 

 structure to their work. There are still many es- 

 says, editorials and sermons which start nowhere 

 and without any recognizable theme, run a level 

 uneventful course to the same point. Unfortu- 

 nately a considerable part of our naturalistic land- 

 scape gardening is of this sort. A man must have 

 something to say and some way of saying it before 

 he can preach a real sermon. A landscape architect 

 must have a genuine inspiration and must then be 

 possessed of an effective technic before he can make 

 a landscape which has theme and structure, char- 

 acter and clothes, spirit and body. The para- 

 graphic method belongs only to technic and even 

 here indicates merely the fundamental principle. 

 Its application still requires artistic skill and the 

 skill of the artist comes only through years of de- 

 voted practice. 



In as much as these structural principles of in- 

 formal composition have been widely overlooked, 



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