Number 3. 
Water in the landscape is always to be desired, and lakes and ponds especially offer opportunities for beautiful planting. 
shrubs are best over a well-defined water edge 
Overhanging trees and 
The Picturesque Garden 
SOME GUIDE POSTS ON THE WAY TOWARD MAKING A LANDSCAPE OR NATURALISTIC GARDEN- 
HOW TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THE BEST FEATURES OF YOUR PLACE—WHAT TO DO WITH VISTAS 
by Charles Downing Lay 
Photographs by the Author and Others 
I T is a little difficult to explain why a garden should be called 
picturesque, but the term represents a well formed idea which 
has come to us from the writings of Sir Uvedale Price and others 
of his time in England. It might just as well be called the 
picturesque place or the naturalesque garden. The same character 
of work is known in France as a jar din anglais. The idea is dis¬ 
tinctly English and what it means is that the place should look as 
if it grew of itself, without the interference but perhaps with the 
tender care of man. It represents essentially the sentimental atti¬ 
tude toward nature and its ideal is nature unspoiled and unadorned 
by art. But when nature cannot be left to herself or must be aided, 
as on a new place, we have an art which is the imitation or perhaps 
the paraphrasing of nature’s accidental beauties with such ma¬ 
terial as may be at hand or can be procured. It is a style which 
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