56 COMMON SENSE GARDENS 



steps; and above all is the colouring of landscape 

 and sky and foliage, a semi-tropical note that can- 

 not be imported and set up like a sun-dial or box 

 of flowers. 



In America one associates such theatrical pleas- 

 ure grounds with the over-rich, or with men of new 

 wealth who seize upon every opportunity to call 

 attention to their riches. In Italy the man of 

 modest means does not have a flower garden; he 

 is quite satisfied with Nature's garden that lies 

 spread out ever before his appreciative gaze in a 

 mist of dazzling colours, exhaling the softest per- 

 fumes. In England, where garden-making and 

 garden-planting have been an art for centuries, the 

 Italian garden is let severely alone. True garden- 

 lovers are never satisfied with make-believe 

 gardens. 



