The Natural Style in Landscape Gardening 



of distribution. In a word, good grouping is abso- 

 lutely essential to the natural style. 



Considering the group with reference to total 

 structure we shall see that the unit group in the 

 smaller works may constitute the entire paragraph. 

 In other words, to develop a small garden in good 

 paragraphic structure it may prove best to use only 

 one group to each paragraph. Or certain para- 

 graphs may have only the one group in each. In 

 larger works there will usually be several or many 

 groups to each paragraph. In short, the group will 

 be a smaller unit than the paragraph. 



When several groups are used in any one para- 

 graph they must obviously be much alike. This 

 follows from the fact that they must all present the 

 leading motive in a consistent manner, because it is 

 the purpose of each paragraph to make a perfectly 

 clear and unified presentation of some one phase of 

 the leading motive. 



It will occur to all that any feeling of rhythm 

 which our landscape compositions may possess is 

 likely to be given tlirough the appearance and reap- 

 pearance of similar forms in successive groups — is 



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