INTRODUCTION 
and Japanese styles have sometimes been called respectively the 
natural, the formal or architectural and the picturesque. This 
synonomy is very superficial and should generally be avoided. 
Fig. 1. LanpscaPE GARDENING IN THE NATURAL STYLE 
More logically stated the natural or informal method on the 
one hand and the architectural or formal on the other, are not 
styles at all, but fundamental garden forms. Any of the properly 
national styles may be either formal or informal. As a matter of 
fact the formal and the informal methods have both been used suc- 
cessfully both in Italy and in England. 
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