GARDEN-CRAFT. 



occasions, what has pleased his eye in different 

 moods, played upon his emotions, pricked his fancy, 

 suggested reverie, stirred vague yearnings, brought 

 a sense of quickened joy pastoral scenery, the 

 music of leaves and waters, the hues and sweetness 

 of country flowers, the gladness of colour, picturesque 

 form of tree or contour of land, spring's bright laugh, 

 autumn's glow, summer's bravery, winter's grey 

 blanched face each thing that has gone home to 

 him has, in its way, fostered in man the garden 

 mania. Inspired by their beauty and mystery, he 

 has gathered them to himself about his home, has 

 made a microcosm out of the various detached 

 details which sum up the qualities, features, and 

 aspects of the open country ; and the art of this 

 little recreated world is measured by the happy 

 union of naturalness and of calculated effect. 



What sources of inspiration were discovered by 

 the new school of gardeners, I asked a moment ago, 

 which were not shared by English gardeners from 

 time immemorial ? The art of gardening, I said, has 

 its root in man's enthusiasm for the woodland world. 

 See how closely the people of old days must have 

 observed the sylvan sights of Nature, the embroid- 

 ery of the meadows, the livery of the woods at 

 different seasons, or they would not have been 

 capable of building up that piece of hoarded loveli- 

 ness, the old-fashioned English garden ! 



The pleasaunce of old days has been mostly 

 stubbed up by the modern " landscape gardener," 

 but if no traces of them were left we have still here 



