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 selling 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. 
