40 GARDEN-CRAFT. 



her painted delights a dozen or more vignettes, 

 shall we say? ready-made for garden-distribution 

 in bed, bank, wilderness, and park ; things which 

 the old gardener freely employed ; features and 

 images which he transferred to his dressed grounds, 

 not copying them minutely but in an ideal manner ; 

 mixing his fancy with their fact, his compulsion with 

 their consent ; flavouring the simple with a dash of 

 the strange and marvellous, combining dreams and 

 actualities, things seen, with things born "within 

 the zodiac of his own wit " ; frankly throwing into 

 the compacted glamour of the place all that will give 

 tclat to Nature and teach men to apprehend new 

 joy. 



So, then, after separating the brazen from the 

 golden in Nature after excluding "properties" of 

 the woodland world which are demonstrably unfit 

 for the scenic show of a garden, how ample the 

 scope for artistic creation in the things that remain ! 

 And, given an acre or two of land that has some 

 natural capabilities, some charm of environment 

 given a generous client, a bevy of workmen, horses 

 and carts, and, prime necessity of all, a pleasant 

 homestead in the foreground to prompt its own 

 adornment and be the centre of your efforts, and, 

 upon the basis of these old tracks of Nature and old 

 themes of Art, what may not one hope to achieve of 

 pretty garden-effects that shall please the eye, flatter 

 the taste, and captivate the imagination of such as 

 love Beauty ! 



