THE AMATEUR GARDEN 



that twin art law, against inutility, which de- 

 mands that everything in an artistic scheme 

 serve the use it pretends to serve; third, a pre- 

 cept of Colonel Waring's: *' Don't fool with run- 

 ning water if you haven't money to fool away"; 

 and, fourth, that best of all gardening rules — 

 look before you leap. 



However, on second thought, and tenth, and 

 twentieth, one thought a day for twenty days, I 

 found that if water was to be impounded any- 

 where on my acre here was the strategic point. 

 Down this ravine, as I have said, was the lawn's 

 one good glimpse of the river, and a kindred 

 gleam intervening would tend, in effect, to draw 

 those farther waters in under the trees and into 

 the picture. 



Such relationships are very rewarding to find 

 to whoever would garden well. Hence this men- 

 tion. One's garden has to do with whatever is 

 in sight from it, fair or otherwise, and it is as 

 feasible and important to plant in the fair as to 

 plant out the otherwise. Also, in making my 

 grove paths, I had noticed that to cross this ra- 

 vine where at one or two places in its upper half 



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