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but in the end he will turn derision into congratulation and emulation. 

 Except in a comparatively few localities, such sites are rare. Usually lots 

 are so flat and bare that some type of the formal garden is the most feasible 

 as well as the most logical thing, and it is for this reason that particular 

 attention is given to such gardens at this time. 



The successful plan for a formal garden must grow out of an independent 

 study of conditions, not a study of ready-made plans. A good plan will be 



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a reasonable thing — that is, there will be an obvious reason for every part of 

 it. You will not put in walks, beds, dials, arbours, pools, etc., because they 

 .are pretty, or because you regard them as an essential part of the furnishing 

 of such a garden, as you would regard a frying-pan an essential in the kitchen. 

 Obviously, a pool or fountain without a constant and copious water-supply 

 would be unsatisfactory, and a sun-dial in constant shade would be quite 

 absurd. Now that all animate and inanimate things are given a voice by 



