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 . ow, which isthe poor mans favorite, but equally absurdis the rich mans lawn if overdressed withcostly specimens of weeping spruce, dogwood,and Japanese maples and cherries. Such forms originated in the garden, asManning says, and they belong there, not onthe lawn. The weeping, cut-leaved, and spec-tacular plants are mostly horticultural va-rieties rather than natural species, and theyare generally perpetuated by artific
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 . ow, which isthe poor mans favorite, but equally absurdis the rich mans lawn if overdressed withcostly specimens of weeping spruce, dogwood,and Japanese maples and cherries. Such forms originated in the garden, asManning says, and they belong there, not onthe lawn. The weeping, cut-leaved, and spec-tacular plants are mostly horticultural va-rieties rather than natural species, and theyare generally perpetuated by artificial means,such as grafting. They are one degree re-moved from nature, and to that extent may beconsidered artificial. For this reason, peopleprefer plants that are naturally pendulous,rather than artificially so. For example, theylike the Wisconsin willow better than theKilmarnock willow, which is so radically dif-ferent from the normal willow. On the otherhand, the cut-leaved weeping birch seemsmerely to intensify the peculiar grace of itsprototype, the European birch. It is prob-ably the most popular of all weeping plantsand deservedly so, in spite of its rather short. 90-91. Which is the Better kind of Accent for the Pi-airie, Vertical or Horizontal—Foreign Poplars or Native Haws?A little accent is a good thing, but how about thirty. Lombardy poplars sur- Some landscape gardeners will never plant the Lombardy poplar on the - - All accent is no accent. Nature. left, the exclamation . urairie. They_sai it makes too strong a co _ _ _ (A hawthorn in bloom.) rounding a city lot? All accent is no accent,point out of Illinois scenery. Nature. left, the exclamation , Drairie. it makes too strong a contrast, while the haw and crab delicately Digitizeudy IWeruBoim)^^ * *? y- - -• • -— 3^ THI* PRAIRIE SPIRIT IN LANDSCAPE GARDENING ..m
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