§ 4.—THE FOUR TREATMENTS.
There are, broadly speaking, four methods of treating Natural foliage. These may be arranged in a Chart, according to their relation to the two poles of Art and Science; from Realism (which is all Art and no Science) to the "Botanical Analysis" method (in which is a little Science but no Art), thus:
The first two of these methods are Artistic and legitimate: the others are inartistic and misleading. Before treating of the artistic methods it will be well to clear the ground by dismissing the others.
| ART POLE.................................................SCIENCE POLE | |||
| Realism (See § 10). | Conventionalism (See § 14). | Disguised Artificialism (See § 6). | Botanical Analysis (See § 5). |