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 . apparently, it neveroccurs to them that any restoration of wildprairie is possible. The one overwhelming im-pression that all travelers got from the wildprairie was the infinite extent of it. Nowadayspeople do not see how the idea of infinity canbe brought home with the old-time powerwithout the use of a tract of land so large thatno individual can afford to pay taxes on it andlet it lie idle. To re-create a big, wild p
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 . apparently, it neveroccurs to them that any restoration of wildprairie is possible. The one overwhelming im-pression that all travelers got from the wildprairie was the infinite extent of it. Nowadayspeople do not see how the idea of infinity canbe brought home with the old-time powerwithout the use of a tract of land so large thatno individual can afford to pay taxes on it andlet it lie idle. To re-create a big, wild prairieis a state-park proposition. Wanted—a Prairie Park ?COAIE day, says one far-seeing citizen,^ every middle-western state will makeone prairie reservation before it is too late orre-create one wild prairie for the peopleto enjoy forever. It would take less land thanis popularly supposed. For the main purposeis to get out of sight of trees and away fromevery suggestion of mans work. This canperhaps be done on 1,000 acres, if the landrolls enough. A dozen parties could then bein as many different valleys, yet each couldenjoy without interruption for short periods. For constructive purposes all prairie scenery may befinite extent, and is the more inspiring for occasional visits. The Broad View Qf ihe Prairie, Fraijied by Stc ^*zteonSvthM/( ed Honey Locustlong view. The broad view is the one that suggests in the apparent infinity of green grass and bluesky which impressed the pioneers as power-fully as the ocean. For contrast, the big openspace could be skirted hy the other great ele-ment of Illinois scenery—the irregular borderof woodland, which originally defined the typi-cal Illinois prairie, with its pleasant suggestionof a river hidden within the forest. Such aprairie park seems necessary to recharge thebatteries of those who do the worlds The millions who toil in great cities ordinarilyhave but two weeks vacation. Several statesnow provide a chance to camp in t
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