72 GARDEN DESIGN 



set in seas of Primroses, Cuckoo flowers 

 and Violets ; Silver Birch woods of 

 Northern Europe beyond all grace pos- 

 sible in stone ; the eternal garland of 

 beauty that one kind of Palm waves for 

 hundreds of miles throughout the land 

 of Egypt, a vein of summer in a 

 lifeless world : the noble Pine woods of 

 California and Oregon, like fleets of 

 colossal masts on mountain waves saw 

 again these and many other lovely forms 

 in garden and woodland, and then 

 wondered that any one could be so blind 

 to the beauty of plant and tree as to 

 write as Mr. Sedding does here. 



From the days of the Greeks to our 

 own time, the delight of all great artists 

 has been to get as near this divine beauty 

 as the material they work with permits. 

 But this deplorable " vegetable sculptor s " 

 delight is in distorting beautiful natural 

 forms ; and this in the one art in 

 which we enjoy the living things them- 



