38 GARDEN DESIGN 



garden a group of Scotch Firs as good 

 in form as a fine group in wild Nature, 

 and so of the Cedar of Lebanon and 

 many of the lovely trees of the world. 

 We can have bits of rock alive with 

 alpine flowers, or pieces of lawn fringed 

 with trees in their natural forms and 

 as graceful as the alpine lawns on the 

 Jura. 



So of all other true art. The Venus 

 of Milo is from a noble type of woman 

 not a mean Greek. The horses of 

 the Parthenon are the best types of 

 Eastern breed, full of life and beauty, 

 not sickly beasts. Great landscape 

 painters like Corot, Turner, and Troyon 

 show us in their work the absurdity 

 of this statement so impertinently used. 

 They seek not ugly things because they 

 are natural, but beautiful combinations 

 of field, and hill, wood, water, tree, 

 and flower, and grass, selecting groupings 

 which go to make good composition, 



