The Natural Style in Landscape Gardening 



while. 



At sundry times and in divers places it does seem 

 indeed as though the good old mother gardener 

 would try some novel color effects of her own. She 

 does occasionally spread out those miles upon 

 miles of yellow California poppies, or cover a state 

 like Kansas with sunflowers, or fill the French 

 fields with poppies glowing scarlet, or delight the 

 Germans with some acres of cyanin-blue kaiser- 

 blumen. But mostly she comes back to the greens, 

 the grays and the gray-greens, — and always with 

 that inevitable blue sky overhead. Her pinks and 

 reds and blues and purples — colors which if put 

 into Millicent's dining-room M'ould wreck the house 

 — she throws about quite carelessly and promis- 

 cuously. The most incompatible colors are set out 

 together just as though they had passed the censor- 

 ship. At this sort of thing nature beats the neo- 

 impressionists, the cubists, and the militant suf- 

 fragists. 



The fact is, of course, that these miscellaneous 

 colors are actually harmonized by Nature, and by 

 such heroic means as the artists never could com- 



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