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garden (see page ). This will secure not the Italian 



garden of Italy, but the home garden of America. 



Here is another intimate and suggestive description 

 of a garden which might be applied to the best gardens 

 the world over: 



"Forgotten beside some rosy palace by the Adri- 

 atic, its fountain overrun with maidenhair, its gold- 

 fish twinkling in the marble font, and grass growing 

 gaily and wildly where it will, the garden that once 

 was trimmest has a delightful spirit that it could 

 not have without precisely that past of artifice and 

 ceremony. No prosperity except that of summer, 

 no order that is not sweetly made light of while it 

 is carelessly fulfilled, and all access open by way of 

 the sunny air, so that no seeds are denied an anchor- 

 age in this port and harbourage of the winds. A trim 

 garden that is no longer trim is full of frolic. A trim 

 garden that is still trim has a kind of comeliness as an 

 accessory of architecture. It is at any rate a garden 

 and not a landscape. 



"How has the world taken so much trouble to make 

 less lovely things out of those fine materials — the 

 blossoming earth and the fostering sky? Pity is it 

 that the word garden should be so vulgarized by 

 worldly gardens. It is an early word for all men, 

 one of the earliest of words. It is an Orient word, 

 fresh and perpetual from childhood and the Divine 

 East. " ' 



' Alice Meynell, 1900. 



