FIVE] LAWNS AND SHRUBBERIES 
ed.” Pray tell me why a mottled appearance on a 
lawn is to be reprehended? And tell me, further, 
why nature never found this out? She mottles 
things without shame or apparently the least 
thought of making a blunder. The educated eye 
finds nothing in the country more beautiful than 
the variegation of color. No two trees on our 
lawns are shaded the same green. Shall we under- 
take to eliminate all but one color? Shall we re- 
fuse to allow a maple to stand beside an oak, or in 
autumn shall we forbid the crimson and the gold 
to mingle with the green? It is very vital for us to 
get rid of these false notions of natural beauty. A 
bit of undandelioned grass plot, dug at, picked at, 
and fussed over, will do in a city or village; but on 
a true country homestead let nature laugh and 
play and have her own way. 
1.105 J 
