The Natural Style in Landscape Gardening 



less capable disciples. Specimen planting must be 

 done with great restraint; yet within judicious 

 limits it is wholly proper and effective. 



It need not be forgotten, either, that to many 

 sane and cultivated persons a garden is still a place 

 where plants grow — where trees and shrubs and 

 flowers are to be enjoyed. Many good people still 

 admire plants, and to them no possible exhibition 

 of architecture, statuary or ceramics can take the 

 place of good maple trees or blossoming lilacs or 

 masses of blue larkspurs. The unlimited wealth of 

 all the nursery catalogs is at the command of the 

 designer who is ready to cater to this amiable and 

 legitimate taste. There are literally thousands of 

 interesting plants which can be employed to make 

 a garden a place worth visiting. These embellish- 

 ments, too, have one indubitable advantage over 

 the sun dial and the pergola, in that they change 

 from week to week and day to day. The garden 

 which is ablaze this month with poppies may be 

 just as glorious next month with peonies. The gar- 

 den which emphasizes features of this sort has a 

 wide versatility. 



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