FEATURES AND FURNISHINGS 



TWO good reasons why the formal garden 

 has sometimes appealed more to the popular 

 mind than has the informal garden are, first, 

 that the former has possessed more features of 

 striking interest and, second, that the formal gar- 

 den has often been better supplied with the furni- 

 ture necessary to make it humanly habitable and 

 usable. The informal garden, in a word, has too 

 often been featureless and unfurnished. These 

 faults ought to be corrected. 



It is the business of the landscape gardener to 

 supply these desirable features. He must find them 

 on the ground, develop them, invent them, create 

 them — provide them by the main strength of his 

 artistic genius. Some little study in this field may 

 show perhaps that the possibilities are as great for 

 the naturalistic garden as for the most architectural 

 enterprise. 



First of all the landscape designer should utilize 



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