DECORATIVE LANDSCAPE 



of the best work in this field is of a dec- 

 orative character, and is made secondary to 

 some other art or utility. The planting of 

 trees along a city street is a very common, 

 very simple and very effective decorative 

 scheme. It is at the same time one of the 

 regulation schemes of the landscape archi- 

 tect. 



As one floats along down the Rhine 

 past Mainz, Coblenz, Bonn and Koln, he 

 is profoundly impressed with the beauty 

 of those Rhine cities. He is struck espe- 

 cially with the water fronts, which he 

 compares with the coal docks and slaughter 

 houses on our American river fronts, 

 greatly to the disadvantage of his patriot- 

 ism. It may seem anti-climactic to compare 

 these beautifully terraced city fronts, with 

 their carefully spaced, symmetrically pruned 

 trees, to the dado round a dining-room; 

 but in the simplicity, directness, and 

 adequacy of the decorative effect the river 

 front and the masterpiece of the house 

 decorator are much alike. 



Certainly landscape gardening like this 

 is very much unlike the free and easy 

 making of informal pictures for their own 

 sakes as one sees it in Franklin Park, 



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