This vintage book contains a fantastic and comprehensive guide to landscape gardening in the natural style. The author, F. A. Waugh, essentially pioneered the role of the landscape architect as an integral part of national forest design and development, through such projects as the Mount Hood Scenic Byway and the Bryce Canyon scenic roadway. His ideas spread via his diverse writings, most famously including this text, and "Recreation Uses in the National Forests." 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 who based his career on exploring the recreational functions of national forests, designing extremely natural methods of landscape design, and employing ecology as a foundation for decisions in designing landscapes. 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.