THE AMATEUR GARDEN 



of supply and demand, lines of need. For lines 

 of need, business speed ! 



But for lines of pleasure, grace and leisure. 

 It is the tactful office of this shrubbery border 

 to veil the business path from the lawn — from 

 the pleasure-ground. Therefore its outside, 

 lawn-side edge should be a line of pleasure, 

 hence a line of grace, hence not a straight line 

 (dead line), nor yet a line of but one lethargic 

 curve, but a line of suavity and tranquil on- 

 going, a leisurely undulating line. 



Not to have it so is an error, but the error 

 is an inoffensive one easily corrected and the 

 merit is that the dwelling's business path is 

 greenly, bloomingly screened from its pleasure- 

 ground by a lovely natural drapery which at 

 the same time furnishes, as far as the path 

 goes, the house's robes of modesty. Indeed 

 they are furnished farther than the path goes; 

 for no good work gathers momentum more 

 readily than does good gardening, and the 

 householder, having begun so rightly, has now 

 nothing to do to complete the main fabric of 

 his garden but to carry this flow of natural 



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