The Home-Grounds 



to help us to furnish forth our works of land- 

 scape-art. 



Yet, although we do not actually need 

 them, their help is very welcome if we take 

 it in proper fashion. We should add other 

 things to ours without overwhelming ours 

 and thus selhng our birthright of individual- 

 ity for what, alas, too often proves a mess of 

 motley herbage ; and we should call upon Eu- 

 rope and Eastern Asia, akin in climate to our 

 Eastern America, rather than upon the trop- 

 ics, and those other lands where vegetable 

 types have developed in harmony with natural 

 conditions that are not our own. We want 

 American gardens, American landscapes, 

 American parks and pleasure-grounds, not 

 the features of those of a dozen different 

 countries huddled together into a scene which 

 has no simplicity, harmony, or unity, and 

 therefore no character — no likeness to Nat- 

 ure, and therefore no artistic worth. 



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