Little gardens; how to beautify city yards and small country spaces . -not. It Is wiser that these Incidents should be In-timate and domestic than to attempt grandioseor park-like effects. Indeed, even our park-makers, our landscape architects, as they arecalled, are conceding much to the taste for sim-plicity. Frederick Law Olmsted, who wroughta needed reform In this respect, aimed to pre-serve the natural landscape, merely softening Itto human uses; to teach, and to satisfy men withthe qualities of gentleness and loveliness; to re-move from sight all harsh, discordant elements,and to stimula
Little gardens; how to beautify city yards and small country spaces . -not. It Is wiser that these Incidents should be In-timate and domestic than to attempt grandioseor park-like effects. Indeed, even our park-makers, our landscape architects, as they arecalled, are conceding much to the taste for sim-plicity. Frederick Law Olmsted, who wroughta needed reform In this respect, aimed to pre-serve the natural landscape, merely softening Itto human uses; to teach, and to satisfy men withthe qualities of gentleness and loveliness; to re-move from sight all harsh, discordant elements,and to stimulate pleasures in the air, which yieldhealth and content, and calm the fever of sociallife. In the park, private as well as public, hestrove to conceal his art and pleasantly to deceivethe wayfarer Into the notion that it was all naturein a holiday humor. We must regard our groundas a part of the home, and govern its use andornament accordingly. In town nature has beenhumanized out of likeness to Itself, hence, arti-fice in gardening conforms, not merely In aspect,92. ROSES IN PROFUSION. THE COUNTRY YARD but In spirit, to its setting. We may, indeed,give it as an axiom, that the more formal thehouse, the more formal the garden. In thesuburb, or the village, we meet nature half-way,and our yard is not an uncovered greenhouse, butrather a link between the joy of home and thelawlessness of the wild. A village garden canbe charming if it draws only on the fields withinsight of the house for its materials, and it be-comes esthetically and morally useful if it teachesto the villagers the immanence of that beautywhich, too often in their conceit, is a far andmerchantable quantity. The city yard is anentity. The country yard is foreground for thelarge and affecting beauty of the hills. As to trees, it is possible to have too manyof them, and too close to the house. Modernlandscape architects will not hear your pleadingfor just one elm before the house, or just a coupleof maples at the cu
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