" Nature furnishes us with a true basis, and leads us to the margin 

 of her charms, and gives us whispers of her harmonies in the budding 

 coppice, carpeted with the blue hyacinth * * given as advocating the 

 importation or scrupulous reproduction of unfettered nature in the 



gattden " THOMAS H. MAWSON 



{Art and Craft of Garden Making}. 



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