78 THE PARKS AND GARDENS OF PARIS. [Chap. IV. 



Nothing will profit more. In each country also travel is needed 

 as a guide to judicious planting. Even in a small country like 

 Britain there is an immense amount of wasted energy, owing 

 to ignorance of the trees that will thrive in any given district. 

 No fairly instructed landscape-gardener would, for example, plant 

 trees where they are certain never to attain maturity — a common 

 error, however. 



In teaching the art of garden-design all has yet to be done. 

 "What we want is a body of trained garden-artists imbued with 

 sympathy with nature and love for the work. Such a training 

 as that above mentioned would give us men who would add to 

 our healthy pleasures, and to the beauty of country and town. 

 Gardening is now, even with the most civilised nations, in the 

 same state as that in which art is among the Pawnees, who 

 daub diagrams of a few horses and men on their blankets. We 

 leave all the pictures to those who make them in oil, when we 

 could make living pictures. Garden-artists will, it is to be hoped, 

 be a part of the working force of the coming time. 



