WHERE TO PLANT WHAT 



this : as those who make and present a play take 

 great pains that, by flashes of revelation to eye 

 and to ear, the secrets most unguessed by the 

 characters in the piece shall be early revealed to 

 the audience and persistently pressed upon its 

 attention, so should the planting of a garden 

 be; that, as if quite without the gardener's or 

 the garden's knowledge, always, to the eye, nos- 

 tril or ear, some clear disclosure of charm still 

 remote may beckon and lure across easy and 

 tempting distances from nook to nook of the 

 small garden, or from alley to alley and from 

 glade to glade of the large one. Where to 

 Plant What ? Plant it as far away as, according 

 to the force of its character or the splendor of its 

 charms, it can stand and beckon back with best 

 advantage for the whole garden. 



Thus we generalize. And as long as one may 

 generalize he is comparatively safe from humil- 

 iating criticism. It is only when he begins to 

 name things by name and say what is best for 

 just where, that he touches the naked eyeball (or 

 the funny-bone) of others whose crotchets are not 

 identical with his. Yet in Northampton this 



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