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tern beds such as we see so distastefully displayed in our 

 parks, showing in gaudy colei and acalyphas the day of 

 the week, a map of tlie United States or an ugly 

 ship sailing on dry land,— these things do not belong^o 

 any system of landscape gardening. :N'either do the 

 trivial little mosaics of echeverias and geraniums which 

 one sees in private dooryards. These things belong in 

 the horticultural museum, along with other oddities 

 and monstrosities. It is not possible to speak of garden- 

 ing as a fine art until these things are thoroughly for- 

 saken and forgotten. 



