86 COME INTO THE GARDEN 



will the instinct really to make garden awaken 

 and really beautiful gardens appear. 



With the border allowed for — mark off a space 

 at least one foot wide all around for such allow- 

 ance, wider if you purpose planting a hedge — 

 the plan of the space inclosed by it is immedi- 

 ately before us. And here the personal equation 

 enters at once, large and influential. People are 

 divided, I find, into what I have secretly called 

 orderly and disorderly in the matter of taste 

 in gardens — secretly because disorderly seems 

 generally to imply reproach, although I do not 

 know that it does in this connection. In fact, 

 the disorderly type commonly regard the orderly 

 ones as offenders and apply the adjective to 

 them almost in the tone of an epithet. So it all 

 depends really onthe point of view; but after 

 all, this is not pertinent to the question now and 

 here involved. What matters here is the choice 

 between regularity, symmetry, formality if you 

 will, and Irregularity, complexity, asymmetry, 

 disorder in one sense — not actual untidiness but 

 lack of arrangement. Everyone of us will take 

 sides here, one way or the other; this Is the big 

 personal equation that will Influence all the gar- 

 den's plan within the simple lines representing 

 its boundary. 



With equally careful planning it might seem 



