European and Japanese Gardens 



work is not laid out or undertaken which cannot l^e easily exe- 

 cuted and maintained without taxing the resources of the 

 owner. 



With the English, gardening is so old an art that the cost 

 of maintaining can be as readily estimated beforehand as can 

 the cost of the execution. Tradition, habit, social custom have 

 all combined to fix the lines on which work shall be conducted, 

 and thus to make a standard of "form" used in the athletic sense, 

 for the maintenance of the service of the house, the stable, and 

 the grounds. If a man can afford but three servants, his house 

 is arranged on the basis of what three servants can do thor- 

 oughly well, and he will not have a larger house unless he can 

 afford to have his service adequate. His stable will be regu- 

 lated with equal care. He will have only such horses and car- 

 riages as can be kept in first-rate condition. Applying these 

 same principles to the garden, collecting and making use of 

 the cumulative experience of many generations of gardeners, 

 he lays out his ground with clear foresight as to its mainte- 

 nance. Nothing is to be slovenly, nothing neglected. The 



A GARDEN BACKED WITH TREES 



