The Natural Style in Landscape Gardening 



respect, and the one who thinks of it merely as a 

 scheme of superficial ornament hasn't come within 

 glimpsing distance of the main idea. 



Nevertheless there are many situations where the 

 garden, having been built in all structural sound- 

 ness, presents a pretty field for purely decorative 

 treatment. At this point our second group of mis- 

 understandings must be forestalled. These rest, as 

 has been suggested, upon the assumption that the 

 common practices of decorative art may be trans- 

 ferred without redigestion to use in the garden. 

 Take the color scheme as an example. It is one on 

 which hundreds of respectable men and thousands 

 of intelligent women have gone wrong, — men and 

 women of the right sort — sound on the suffrage, 

 who go to church, who know what eugenics is and 

 who love their neighbors reasonably. 



These good people have learned (but not in gar- 

 dening) that the color scheme is the greatest scheme 

 in the world for securing unity of artistic effect. 

 MiUicent spends the nights of her girlhood in a 

 pink bedroom developed by her own good taste; 

 she adopts another color scheme for her trousseau; 



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