when it has been so well trained that the eye is enabled to appreciate the 

 utmost refinements of colour-values, and when this education has been 

 carried to the point necessary for the artist, of justly estimating the colour 

 as it appears to be. This is the most difficult thing to learn ; to see colour 

 as it is, is quite easy ; any one not colour-blind can do this ; but to see 

 it as it appears to be needs to be learnt, for upon this acquired proficiency 

 depends the power of the artist to interpret the colours of objects and to 

 represent them in their right relation to each other. 



There is another good double flower-border in this pleasant garden. 

 In the sunny month of August the fine Summer Daisies {Chrysanthe- 

 mum maximum). Phloxes and Lavender are in beauty, and some bloom 

 remains upon the climbing Roses. The Box-edging, stout and strong, 

 can withstand the temporary encroachments of some of the border 

 flowers, for in such a garden, rule is relaxed whenever such latitude tends 

 to beauty. Here and there, where the little edging shrub showed signs of 

 unusual vigour, it has been allowed to grow up on the understanding 

 that it shall submit to the shears, which clip it into rounded ball-shapes 

 of two sizes, one upon another, like loaves of bread. 



A garden like this, of moderate size, and needing no troublesome 

 accessories of glasshouses, or even frames, and very little outside labour, 

 is probably the very happiest possession of its kind. As the seasons 

 succeed each other new pictures of flower beauty are revealed in constant 

 succession. After the day's work in the best of the daylight is over, its 

 owner turns to it for pleasant labour or any such tending as it may need. 

 Every group of plants meets him with a friendly face, for each one was 

 planted by his own hands. His watchful eye observes where anything 

 is amiss and the needful aid is immediately given. 



In a great garden this vigilant personal care of plants as individuals is 

 impossible. However able a man the head gardener may be, or however 

 much he may love and wish to cherish the flowers under his care, his duties 

 and responsibilities are too many and too onerous to admit of his being able 

 to enjoy this intimate fellowship ; but in the humbler garden the close 

 relationship of man and flowers, with all its beneficent and salutary 

 serviceableness to both, seems to be exactly adjusted. 



Such a garden it is that fulfils its highest purpose ; that giving of the 

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