Publisher's Synopsis
This book contains a fantastic and comprehensive guide to landscape gardening in the natural style. Contents include: What is Meant, The Native Landscape, Form and Spirit, The Landscape Motive, Principles of Structural Composition, The Art of Grouping, and The Open Field . Frank Albert Waugh (1869 - 1943), was an American landscape architect whose career focused upon recreational uses of national forests, the production of a highly natural style of landscape design, and the implementation of ecological principles. Many antiquarian texts such as this are becoming increasingly rare and expensive, and it is with this in mind that we are republishing this volume now, in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition. It comes complete with a specially commissioned new biography of the author."