The Natural Style in Landscape Gardening 



landscape pictures, no matter how pretty the pic- 

 tures may be. At the same time, however, all enter- 

 prising cities are reaching out to equip themselves 

 with rural parks — with large sections of wild land 

 at relatively long distances from the crowded city 

 section, — and these outer parks are to be real 

 scenery reservations. They will still be devoted to 

 recreation, but to the larger, quieter forms, such 

 as camping, boating, and fishing. In these parks 

 the work of the landscape designer must lie in the 

 direction of the most advanced natural style. 



Beyond these outer city parks will lie the country 

 parks. There will be county and state reserves. 

 Such reserves are now just being made by the more 

 enterprising counties and commonwealths. State 

 park systems will very soon emerge; and as there 

 is a logical place for them in civilization, we may 

 expect for them a large future. These state parks 

 will be concerned chiefly with the conservation of 

 large tracts of wild land, that is of native land- 

 scape ; and the problem will be not only to conser\^e, 

 but to improve these tracts and to make them 

 physically and spiritually accessible. The only pos- 



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