garden. No one style will exclude all others. THE GARDEN 



\\tu a • a + u GLORIOUS 



Where now American gardens are to be seen 



at their best they have a marked individuality. 



We have good examples of the formal garden, 



enchanting naturalistic and "wild" effects, 



but that which is most satisfying and most 



promising is the fact that the American garden, 



where the real garden is seen, expresses the 



soul of the household for which it springs and 



blooms. 



Although reflecting an intense American 

 individualism, there are indications of a sane 

 garden art and of a sincere appreciation of 

 nature in its spiritual quality. The ideal which 

 seems to be luring us is such a combination or 

 fusion of the formal and the naturalistic as 

 will give us Nature's best gifts so ordered by 

 art as to express in simplicity and purity, with- 

 out sham or exaggeration, the sentiment that 

 finds a natural home in the garden. 



It is probable that the American garden will 

 reflect the bigness of thought and ideal which 

 geographic spaciousness begets. The artistic 

 motive will work within larger limits than 

 those of countries where the formal in art has 

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