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believe it has a close relation to the art of gar- 

 dening. I ought to have said, the craft of gar- 

 dening, for if we look on this employment as an 

 art, our pleasure in it may be the higher, yet L 

 fear it will be the narrower. We can treat the 

 flower-bed as we would paint a picture or shape 

 a statue ; we can make it poetic and endow it with 

 fine and sensitive qualities, and we should do so ; 

 but it is best as a broad and intimate human ex- 

 pression. We may not approve a garden, but 

 if the motive in creating it has been sincere, if it 

 Indicates a love of the beautiful and a reverence 

 for life, we must respect it, for In doing so we 

 respect its maker. 



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