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I have dwelt almost entirely upon the technical side of the 

 art, this being the indispensable means to the end in view. 

 But the goal is one untouched by theory, unmolested by hard- 



PYRUS JAPONICA IN METAL VASE 



and-fast rules. The wonderful beauty of proportion and balance, 

 the choiceness of selection, the effect of growth and vitality, of 

 dignity and grace, with which the whole of this art is pene- 

 trated, are not to be expressed in any doctrinal terms. The 



