Formal Gardening 
are in the country, but merely to suggest the 
country ; not to assume rusticity, but to 
typify it ; not to affect naturalness, but to be 
craftily, carefully, poetically naturalistic. 
The Thiergarten in Berlin is probably 
the finest naturalistic urban park in all Eu- 
rope. Some of its portions are wilder - 
looking, more distinctly naturalistic, than 
any parts of Central Park. But through its 
whole breadth runs a wide formal space, with 
straight drives and walks, richly adorned 
with works of sculpture, and appropriate- 
ly planted. And so it always must be : 
useful, and therefore artificial, features are 
required in all pleasure - grounds, now of 
a large and bold and again of a less obtru- 
sive sort ; and the franker the expression 
of their purpose, the better as a rule the 
result will be. 
We do not yet realize the fact, but when 
grounds are small the formal style, in some 
of its phases, is more easily managed than 
the naturalistic. And this is not the only 
reason why I wish that it were more often 
attempted by American hands. 
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