Really, to create a garden, it is necessary to fling away 

 ambition, social pleasures, to reduce natural responsibil- 

 ities to a minimum, and if you are a man, to retire on a 

 certain income. If you are a woman, then marry an artist, 

 an author, or a clergyman, and make it clear to him that 

 your garden is to be the central idea of both your lives, 

 stipulate for an adequate allowance to meet the tempta- 

 tions of the autumn catalogues, select your friends, dis- 

 card your acquaintances, and set to work. 



— Maby Anstell, "The Happy Garden." 



