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to do all the work for us, we come out at 

 leisure, and notice the flowers, here visited 

 by insects, and there swaying in the wind, 

 and fancy their forms thus fashioned, adapted, 

 selected from without; our town friends 

 are readily convinced of this, and their 

 assent strengthens our convictions and stimu- 

 lates our researches anew. But when we 

 set about making a garden for ourselves, and 

 labour with our own hands, new perspectives 

 open, fresh points of view appear, above all 

 that of growth; and this — even at its very 

 simplest, the wide growth-contrast of lilies 

 and rushes, of weeds and flowers — reinter- 

 prets the differences we formerly ascribed to 

 form — as scientists we thought, as leisure 

 class we now see; and essentially urban at 

 that. For while in our tovA^n herbaria we 

 distinguish grasses and orchids essentially by 

 their post-mortem structure, the gardener 

 is the fuller scientist, the true physiologist, 

 knowing their differences as lives; the grass 

 so vegetative that cattle and farm and city 

 all live upon its surplus, the orchids so 

 splendidly floral that we may easily spend 

 upon their culture more than our grass-field 

 can earn. 



If this rustic point of view be seized, and 

 the urban and mechanical one correspond- 

 ingly subordinated, the present theory will 



