The Natural Style in Landscape Gardening 



From the Atlantic to the Pacific our civilization has 

 been carried forward by a long relay of campfires. 

 Thousands of men and women now living unsus- 

 pected in the haunts of urban luxury have taken 

 their turns beside the evening blaze or cooked their 

 ration of bacon in the frying pan. That was a 

 shrewd observation made by David Harum at New- 

 port when he offered to bet a quarter that, on the 

 shore drive, he could make one-half the millionaires 

 duck their heads by shouting suddenly "low 

 bridge!" Even those who have not personally lived 

 the camp life have had father or mother or uncle 

 whose stories of the early days have fired the ten- 

 derest springs of imagination. 



Moreover camping, even where it has long been 

 given up as a mode of life, persists as a glorious 

 and popular sport. Thousands of men and women 

 go camping annually for their vacations to the 

 Adirondacks, to Canada, to the Rocky Mountains ; 

 and there, during the happiest days of all the year, 

 they sit and smoke and dream and cook by the 

 birchwood blaze. The great majority of sound, 

 healthy and really cultivated persons in this country 



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