44 VARIETY IN THE LITTLE GARDEN 



This garden of Sedgwick is unknown to me except through 

 picture and description, but be it large or small, it carries its 

 lesson for the little garden. Here are the very principles of 

 beauty; here are the suggestions for the furnishing of the small 

 garden; for while the paved garden is for a large part of this 

 country impracticable because of our hot suns, proportion and 

 decoration are the same the world over. The effective placing 

 of a well-planned flower group may be practised anywhere. 

 Balance in a towering mass of flowers or in rounded groups of 

 flowers may be managed in the smallest of spaces. The effect 

 of distance, where distance is not, is often produced by the 

 skillful landscape architect; and the terms "mystery " and "sur- 

 prise " are linked with the very mention of his name. No garden, 

 no fine garden, is too large to learn from; scale is the thing to re- 

 member — and that is easily reduced for the space available 

 to the majority. 



