190 GARDEN-CRAFT. 



So now her wildness is subdued. The yew and the 

 holly from the tangled brake shall feel the ignominy 

 of the shears. The " common " thorn of the hedge 

 shall be grafted with one of the twenty-seven 

 rarer sorts ; the oak and maple shall be headed 

 down and converted into scarlet species ; the single 

 flowers, obedient to a beautiful disease, shall blow as 

 doubles, and be propagated by scientific processes 

 that defy Nature and accomplish centuries of evolu- 

 tion at a stride. The woodbine from the vernal 

 wood must be nailed to the carpenter's trellis, the 

 brook may no more brawl, nor violate its limits, the 

 leaves of the hollybush and the box shall be varie- 

 gated, the forest tree and woodland shrub shall have 

 their frayed hedges shorn, and their wildness pressed 

 out of them in Art's dissembling embrace. 



And as with the green things of the earth, so 

 with the creatures of the animal world that are 

 admitted into the sanctuary of a garden. Here is 

 no place for nonconformity of any kind. True, the 

 spruce little squirrel asks no leave for his dashing 

 raids upon the beech-mast and the sweet chestnuts 

 that have escaped the range of the gardener's 

 broom ; true, the white and golden pheasant and the 

 speckled goligny may moon about in their distraught 

 fashion down the green alleys and in and out the 

 shrubberies ; the foreign duck may frisk in the lake ; 

 the white swan may hoist her sail, and " float double, 

 swan and shadow;" the birds may sing in the trees; 

 the peacock may strut on the lawn, or preen his 

 feathers upon the terrace walls ; the fallow deer may 



