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and art can be related to each other. 

 Although unity is an essential principle, 

 and one which must be kept in harmony 

 with the characteristics of the form of 

 garden art that is selected, yet rigid ad- 

 herence to such need not interfere with 

 the proper introduction of variety. The 

 individual who truly loves nature, will be 

 guided by following out her schemes, 

 which vary indefinitely, and he will thus 

 be led to the exercise of original thought. 

 When it has once been irrevocably 

 decided that the highest art is found 

 in following the suggestions of nature, 

 then the conventionality so frequently 

 practised and the consequent monotony 

 so ofter seen, may be avoided. There is 

 something better to be acquired than a 

 mere imitation of our neighbors. Be- 

 tween the lawns, walks, and shrubbery 

 of the Gardenesque, so often deemed 

 "artistic," and the only possibility for 

 beautiful grounds the wildness of the 

 Picturesque, requiring little or no inter- 

 ference with nature, the Geometrical 

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