The Lawn in Landscaping
If a landscape is a picture, it must have a canvas. This canvas is the lawn. Upon the lawn, the artist paints with tree and bush and flower as the painter does upon his canvas with brush and pigments. The opportunity for artistic composition and design is nowhere so great as in the landscape garden, because no other art has such a limitless field for the expression of its emotions. The making of a good and spacious lawn, then, is the very first practical consideration in a landscape. The lawn provided, the gardener conceives what is the dominant and central feature in the place, and then throws the entire premises into subordination to this feature. In home grounds this central feature is the house. To scatter trees and bushes over the area defeats the fundamental purpose of the place,--the purpose to make every part of the grounds lead up to the home and to accentuate its home likeness.
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