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 . >^:i^^^^^^ ^^^hIH^ 3. Restoration Is the Second Principle in the Prairie StyleThe aim is to re-create the spirit of disappearing types of American scenery by restoring as much as possibleof the local color or peculiar character impressed upon each scenic unit by nature thru ages of famous Prairie River in Humboldt Park, Chicago. (Jens Jensen, landscape architect.) ing it with haws as in Fig. 12. The ci
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 . >^:i^^^^^^ ^^^hIH^ 3. Restoration Is the Second Principle in the Prairie StyleThe aim is to re-create the spirit of disappearing types of American scenery by restoring as much as possibleof the local color or peculiar character impressed upon each scenic unit by nature thru ages of famous Prairie River in Humboldt Park, Chicago. (Jens Jensen, landscape architect.) ing it with haws as in Fig. 12. The city dweller may conven-tionalize the prairie in his garden, as in Fig. 13. The humblestrenter may symbolize the prairie by putting a prairie rose be-side the door, as in Fig. 14. Amid the most artificial surround-ings it is possible to hint at the bountiful prairie which sur-rounds every city and is the source of its prosperity. Evenamong the tenements, a single brown-eyed daisy in a windowbox may keep alive the hope of freedom, prosperity, and a lifeamid more beautiful surroundings. Thus every home in Illi-nois can connect itself with the greatest source of inspiration. 3. Repetition is the Third Principle in the Prairie Style of Landscape Gardening, The branches or flowers of hawthorns repeat any ^â¢jvc^iWgjW felar tfla^JMJi^ontJS ruftSfland or sky, i(fcflA{rfE^i^_^t«g)foei[^tWst^r is a symooi of the prairie. which is often the strongest feature of middle-western S( _ , __ . Graceland Cemetery, Chicago, has greatly influenced home planting in Illinois. ⢠c in middle-western scenery, bypreserving, restoring, or repeat-ing some phase of the prairie. The origin of the middle-western movement in landscapegardening, if it may be so called,can be traced back to 1878 whenMr. Bryan Lathrop discov-ered Mr. O. C. Simonds andpersuaded him to become a land-scape gardener. The latter thenbegan to lay out the new part ofGraceland Cemetery, which,during the next quarter of a cen-tury
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