GARDEN DESIGN* 23 



TRUE USE OF A GARDEN 



It is surely flying in the face of Nature to fill 

 our gardens with tropical plants, as we are urged 

 to do by the writers on landscape gardening, ignor- 

 ing the entire difference of climate and the fact that 

 a colour which may look superb in the midst of other 

 strong colours will look gaudy and vulgar amongst 

 our sober tints, and that a leaf like that of the 

 Yucca, which may be all very well in its own 

 country, is out of scale and character amidst the 

 modest foliage of our English trees. (The Formal 

 Garden.} 



A passage full of nonsense ! The true 

 use and first reason of a garden is to 

 keep and grow for us plants not in our 

 woods and mostly from other countries 

 than our own ! The Yucca, we are 

 told by the authors, is a " plant out of 

 scale and character among the modest 

 foliage of our English trees " ! The 



