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must be harmony between the garden concept 

 and all outlying conditions, unless outlying con- 

 ditions can be obliterated. And this is nothing 

 more nor less, of course, than recognizing the 

 moods of nature and of earth, and adopting 

 them by adapting to them. Where it is pos- 

 sible to run counter to outside conditions by 

 shutting them out completely — and desirable 

 perhaps, as a walled garden in the heart of city 

 congestion — it may of course be done; and with 

 results that count above all others sometimes, 

 in the way of refreshment and solace. But as 

 we are here concerned with the typical rather 

 than the exceptional, I must not only rigidly as- 

 sert the limitations, but presuppose them; which 

 I can do in a broad sense only by demanding 

 generally harmonious conditions or such seclu- 

 sion as I have described. 



Starting with the materials which are at hand 

 — assuming that the site and conditions invite 

 the wild garden — the whole procedure becomes 

 an enterprise of almost moment by moment in- 

 spiration; for one thing suggests another, and 

 these in turn reveal possibilities of still another, 

 and so it goes. I am not going to deal so much 

 with the entirety, therefore, as with the possible 

 materials which will compose it; the trees and 

 shrubs, the earth corrugations, the stones and 



