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Of course the herbaceous borders, which once contained numberless 

 rare and interesting plants, had disappeared, and the lawn in front of 

 the house was cut up into little beds of red pelargoniums, yellow 

 calceolarias, and the rest." 



In this example we miss the condensed beauty 

 and sweet austerities of the older garden at Kelso : 

 nevertheless, it represents a phase of workmanship 

 which, for its real insiofht into the secrets of grarden- 

 beauty, we may well be proud of, and deplore its 

 destruction at the hands of the landscape-gardener. 



All arts are necessarily subject to progression of 

 type. " Man cannot escape from his time," says 

 Mr Morley, and with changed times come changed 

 influences. But, then, to progress is not to change: 

 "to progress is to live," and one phase of healthy 

 progression will tread the heels of that which pre- 

 cedes it. The restless chanoreful methods of modern 

 gardening are, however, not to be ascribed to the 

 healthy development of one consistent movement, 

 but to chaos — to the revolution that ensued upon the 

 overthrow of tradition — to the indeterminateness of 

 men who have no guiding principles, who take so 

 many wild leaps in the dark, in the course of which, 

 rival champions jostle one another and only the 

 fittest survives. 



In treating of Modern English Gardening, it is 

 difficult to make our way along the tortuous path of 

 change, development it is not, that set in with the 

 banishment of Art in a garden. Critical writers have 

 done their best to unravel things, to find the relation 

 of each fractured phase, and to give each phase a 

 descriptive name, but there are still many un- 



