66 GARDEN DESIGN 



" VEGETABLE SCULPTURE " ! 



This gentleman, unfortunately with- 

 out any knowledge of plants, trees, or 

 landscape beauty, launches out into the 

 dreary sea of quotations from old books 

 about gardens, and knows so little of 

 where he is going, that he is put out 

 of his course by every little drift of 

 wind. 



One goes through chapter after chap- 

 ter thinking to get to the end of the 

 weary matter only to find again nothing 

 but quotations, even to going back to 

 an old book for a song. When at last 

 we come to a chapter on "Art in the 



1 Garden Craft, Old and JNeiv. By John D. Seclding. London : 

 Kegan Paul, Trench, Triibner and Co. 



