THE AMERICAN GARDEN 



a larger scale. For of course the very thing 

 which makes the small garden different from the 

 large, the rich man's from the poor man's, the 

 Scotch or Italian peasant's from the American 

 mechanic's, or the public garden from the pri- 

 vate, is the universal and immutable oneness of 

 the great canons of art. One of our competi- 

 tors, having honestly purged her soul of every 

 impulse she may ever have had to mimic the 

 gardening of the cemeteries, planted her door- 

 yard with a trueness of art which made it the 

 joy of all beholders. Only then was it that a 

 passing admirer stopped and cried: "Upon me 

 soul, Mrs. Anonyma, yir gyairden looks joost 

 loike a pooblic pairk!" He meant — without 

 knowing it — that the spot was lovely for not 

 trying to look the least bit like a public park, 

 and he was right. She had kept what it would 

 be well for the public gardeners to keep much 

 better than some of them do — the Moral Law 

 of Gardening. 



There is a moral law of gardening. No gar- 

 den should ever tell a He. No garden should 



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