The Natural Style in Landscape Gardening 



will be many cases in which, as citizens, they must 

 defend the landscape without hope of remuneration. 

 There will be many cases, however, in which they 

 will find congenial and profitable employment in 

 these tasks. 



For one thing there will always be suburban and 

 country estates and country clubs where private 

 owners will require designs conceived and carried 

 out in the natural style. In many cases these pri- 

 vate commissions will involve the preservation of 

 natural forests, lakes, islands and streams and their 

 development to the best of their native character. 

 This is the field in which all landscape gardening 

 began, the natural style with the rest, — and it is a 

 field which will never be exhausted as long as men 

 make new homes. 



In the second place it is an error to suppose that 

 the natural style, even in its extreme forms, is out- 

 lawed in park design. Of course, it is no longer 

 accepted without question as the only style for park 

 design. We are now making our city parks into 

 genuine recreation grounds. Recreation facilities 

 have come to be altogether more important than 



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