16 MANUAL OF GARDENING 
not, by accident, allow some tree to grow, were it not that it 
is so! : 
Of course these remarks about the lawn are meant for those 
countries where greensward is the natural ground cover. In 
the South and in arid countries, greensward is not the prevail- 
ing feature of the landscape, and in these regions the landscape 
design may take on a wholly different character, if the work is 
to be nature-like. We have not yet developed other concep- 
tions of landscape work to any perfect extent, and we inject the 
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. A house. 
English greensward treatment even into deserts. We may 
look for the time when a brown landscape garden may be made 
in a brown country; and it may be good art not to attempt a 
broad open center in regions in which undergrowth rather than 
sod is the natural ground cover. In parts of the United States 
we are developing a good Spanish-American architecture; per- 
haps we may develop a recognized comparable landscape treat- 
ment as an artistic expression. 
Birds; and cats. 
The picture in the landscape is not complete without birds, 
and the birds should comprise more species than English 
