GARDENS OF THE NORTH AND SOUTH 15 



The ability to construct and plant for to-morrow 

 as well as to-day is one of the most important at- 

 tributes for a gardener to possess. Sentiment and 

 respect for the perfection that time alone can 

 give is absolutely necessary to the art of garden- 

 designing; and refinement of touch and instinct 

 for colouring are as important to the gardener as 

 to the painter. 



Effects of wood and stone and brick, the shapes 

 and colours of hedges and screens, of boskets and 

 groves, of trees and parterres of flowers in the 

 beauty of maturity cannot be set forth on paper, 

 but should appear correctly and vividly to the 

 mind's eye of the designer, just as if they existed 

 and lay spread out shimmering before him. Proj- 

 ects of designing and planting should be approached 

 with the question, "How will they appear next 

 Winter? ten years hence, when the tones have been 

 softened and the shapes rounded out by time?" 

 which the gardener should be able to answer off- 

 hand. 



Many people plant in the Springtime with only 

 the following Summer in view, as they drill vege- 

 table seeds into the kitchen garden. Or they ap- 



