DECORATIVE LANDSCAPE 



association with the whole, will make the 

 garden, of absolute necessity, an expression 

 of their own characters. It will thus 

 correspond with the house. The garden 

 and the house will be one home. But the 

 lawns and shrubberies and gardens on this 

 small home lot will really be so much dec- 

 oration applied to the house. The archi- 

 tecture will predominate. The shrubs will 

 be as much subordinate as the wall paper 

 and picture molding in the library. They 

 will be selected and used in the same spirit 

 and according to the same principles of art. 

 It is an every-day phrase to speak of 

 "the decorative arts," meaning the design 

 of fabrics, wall papers, the ornamentation 

 of house interiors, and the like. These are 

 commonly held in light esteem, though 

 very erroneously so. Their great utilitarian 

 value should give them higher rank, as has 

 been suggested at the opening of this 

 chapter. But whether they stand at the 

 head or at the foot of the list, it will seem 

 proper to include a certain part of the art 

 of landscape architecture with the other 

 "decorative arts." 



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