IT LANDSCAPE GARDENING. 



indoors on the canvas, is what the practical gardener of 

 to-day most needs. As we go about from year to year, 

 studying parks, cemeteries and residence sites in all 

 parts of the country, we find tliat ninety-nine out of 

 every hundred faihires are to be traced to the evident 

 fact that the gardener did not understand the composi- 

 tion as a whole, and not to any lack of his skill in carry- 

 ing out the details. The average gardener needs no 

 instruction in laying out flower beds, in mowing lawns, 

 nor in caring for shrubbery ; but he docs need very 

 much a better appreciation of the demands of unity, 

 variety, character, propriety and finish. 



F. A. WAUGH. 

 Univeesity of Vermont. 



