The prairie spirit in landscape gardening; what the people of Illinois have done and can do toward designing and planting public and private grounds for efficiency and beauty . burg, planting list for DeKalb shows that as early as 1906 hewas using a high percentage of plants native to Illinois—espe-cially the stratified materials. In 1912 he won a world-com-petition for a city plan for Canberra, the new capital of Aus-tralia. Mr. Griffin must be regarded as a middle-western land-scape architect, since he maintains an office in Illinois and un-dertakes new work in the Middle West. T
The prairie spirit in landscape gardening; what the people of Illinois have done and can do toward designing and planting public and private grounds for efficiency and beauty . burg, planting list for DeKalb shows that as early as 1906 hewas using a high percentage of plants native to Illinois—espe-cially the stratified materials. In 1912 he won a world-com-petition for a city plan for Canberra, the new capital of Aus-tralia. Mr. Griffin must be regarded as a middle-western land-scape architect, since he maintains an office in Illinois and un-dertakes new work in the Middle West. There are many other good landscape gardeners now prac-ticing in the Middle West. Those who acknowledge the prairieas a leading motive in their work, are, however, not numerousat the time this paper is prepared. There are several youngmen whose work is promising, but not mature or extensiveenough to show their feeling for the prairie style. One ofthe older men has submitted an itemized list of his work in theprairie style done in Illinois and nearby states since 1901 whichmakes the respectable total of $6,000,000. Whether the work here described and illustrated consti-. 7. A Farm View Framed by Hawthorns in Bloom 6. A Farm View without a Frame of Trees Altho corn is considered one of the most beautiful crops, people often The farmer can increase the natural beauty of his pasture or cornfields by complain that Illinois scenery is tame and monotonous. The wild prairie, with planting trees near his front door, beside the dining-room window, along theits varied flowers, has gone forever. How can men TesCoitrifjrmafi MSt/= /l/7ff^/fIOylfimR) ^^ <^^ frame a good view. _ Especially suitable are stratifiedsuggestion to a land nearly ninety percent of which is titiiSjy ?^^*- -/ ^ifabs, honey locust, and flowering dogwood. THE PRAIRIE SPIRIT IN LANDSCAPE GARDENING
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