4 ANDORRA NURSERIES 
N EARLY every country has developed through the years a 
more or less well-defined type of landscape gardening. 
The Italian garden under bine Mediterranean skies, rich 
in architectural adornment accentuated by the lavish use of 
evergreen trees and shrubs; the grandiose old French chateaux 
with their acres of formal park and vistaed avenues, and the 
distinctive appeal of English gardens and parks adorned with 
the lush foliage and flower of a climate singularly well adapted 
to the growth of all sorts of trees and plants, and the Japanese 
garden of more bizarre effect—these all speak insistently of the 
nation of their origin. 
We in America have chosen with lavish hand such types of 
architecture and landscape gardening design from every land 
as best suit our individual tastes and conditions, and are surely 
developing a type of landscape gardening which may be termed 
distinctly American; it is subtly, yet as clearly marked as our 
other gradually crystallizing national characteristics. Its dom¬ 
inant note is in common with all our other activities, character¬ 
ized by a freedom in our choice of the best that the world has 
to offer; it is an appreciation of the necessity of the furnishing 
of the grounds and gardens immediately about the house, with 
taste commensurate with the indoor furnishings of our homes, 
for our outdoor life must needs be as pleasant as the hours 
spent within doors. 
Setting our “out-of-doors living-rooms”—our gardens, a 
bit apart for our own enjoyment and that of our friends, we 
merican 
Ho 
mes an 
d Gard 
ens 
The House as the Builders Left It in the Spring. 
