The Natural Style in Landscape Gardening 



sible treatment of such problems in the hands of 

 the landscape gardener lies in the application of 

 the natural style of design and development. 



Beyond the state parks lie the national parks. 

 These already are a public asset of incalculable 

 value. We have already taken over several millions 

 of acres in national parks, including superlative 

 types of some of our best American scenery, — and 

 in that category I include, as a matter of course, 

 the Canadian scenery and the Canadian national 

 parks. A good many more of these national parks 

 remain to be established. This movement is des- 

 tined to go forward with vigor for another fifty 

 years. In the meantime we shall discover that other 

 great areas, held primarily as national forests, can 

 serve most admirably all the purposes of parks 

 without in the least impairing their usefulness as 

 forests. Their park qualities will be developed 

 accordingly. 



We have, therefore, in hand several millions of 

 acres of national park lands (including the national 

 forests and the national monuments), with other 

 millions fairly in sight, and we are just organizing 



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