ON THE WEATHER 



The practical landscape gardener has 

 to have due regard everywhere to the 

 climate and to its habitual traits of weather. 

 He will not make a sun parlor in Arizona, 

 nor will he insist on shady pergolas in 

 Quebec. But even beyond the creature 

 comfort of his clients he should design his 

 landscape pictures with an eye quick to the 

 effects which they are to yield in the round 

 of local meteorologies. An Italian garden, 

 with its terraces, balustrades and statuary, 

 would look sick and lonesome in Kansas 

 during a March wind. The clustering 

 groves of cottonwood and box-elder which 

 look so cheerful and homelike under the 

 glistening sun of Greeley, Colorado, would 

 look tame and flat in the soft, diffused, 

 many-colored light of Kent or Sussex. 

 The fine and dignified terraces which adorn 

 the banks of the Rhine at Cologne would 

 look dreary, or even tawdry, on the banks 

 of the Mississippi at St. Louis. 



Yes, the landscape and the weather 

 are absolutely interdependent parts of one 

 picture, wherefore they must be adjusted to 

 one another with the utmost nicety; and the 

 man who would enjoy the one must know 

 and love the other. 



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