The Natural Style in Landscape Gardening 



much to say that questions of color can be wholly 

 ignored in gardening. The truth is simply that 

 they have to be treated quite differently from the 

 way they are managed in millinery. Thus, as I 

 reason out the situation, I would decide that, while 

 color patterns may possibly be worked out to a 

 qualified success in the formal garden, there is small 

 opportunity for anything of this sort in the natu- 

 ralistic informal garden. 



Shrubs and trees show differences in color, to 

 be sure; and in the art of grouping one must see 

 that inharmonious colors are not placed side by side, 

 either in the same or in adjoining groups. There 

 are wide ranges of value in greens — a whole gamut 

 between the light gray greens and the dark blue 

 greens; — and very rich, though delicate, modula- 

 tions are possible within these limits. Here is where 

 the landscape gardener can be as subtle as he 

 pleases. 



For the most important consideration we may 

 adopt a negative rule, viz., avoid all unusual and 

 unnatural colors. In naturalistic gardening such 

 plants as Pissard's plimri, Schwerdler's maple and 



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