The Natural Style in Landscape Gardening 



be photographed hundreds of times every week, 

 tlius demonstrating their pictorial appeal. Some, 

 Jersey cows are almost as good. Most park super- 

 intendents try to have a variety of water fowl — 

 ducks, geese and swans — on their park lakes. All 

 this is perfectly good landscape gardening. 



Then there is the garden theater or players' 

 green. Most of the outdoor theaters recently con- 

 structed in America have been of the emphatically 

 formal extremely architectural type. They have 

 often been called "Greek" theaters. But neither 

 the Greek theater nor the garden theater need be 

 characteristically architectural. The classic Greek 

 plays were probably presented originally amidst 

 very informal surroundings, under the trees, on 

 bits of fortuitous lawn, or even in the street. The 

 architectural Greek theater and the big Roman 

 circus belong to a later and possibly less artistic 

 period. 



Certain it is that the modem outdoor theatricals 

 which have been most successful have been very 

 informally presented amidst characteristically in- 

 formal garden surroundings. In this list would 



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