XIV 



A MODERN GARDEN, SURREY 



A SENSE of colour and the power to use it is 

 ** a gift rarely met with ; and especially rare is 

 it for such a gift to take a Garden as its form of 

 expression. 



Few people realise that once man has deliberately 

 grown his flowers within a wall leaving Nature 

 outside that line of division Art must be the guide 

 in the arrangement and selection of colours, not 

 Nature, whose slavish imitation under conventional 

 limitations will only prove disastrous and tantalising. 

 For Nature, ever prodigal with colour, as she is 

 lavish with life, paints too bold a picture for mortals 

 to copy. 



Most modern Gardens lack not only this art of 

 design with its accompanying colour scheme, but 

 also the value of scent is partly, if not wholly, for- 

 gotten. The twin sisters, Scent and Colour, 

 should go hand in hand in the making of a Flower 

 Garden, and they do in at least one modern 



