38 MY GROWING GARDEN 



I have smeared on concentrated lime-sulphur solu- 

 tion, which they seem to revel in ! Smashing them 

 with a knife or wire is the only sure thing. 



Part of the garden plan for Breeze Hill is that 

 looking from any part of the house there shall be 

 an agreeable view of things growing, and that 

 looking toward the house from any part of the 

 garden there shall also be a pleasant prospect of 

 plants or shrubs or trees. That is, I am to imitate 

 the wisdom of the Frenchmen who have made 

 Paris beautiful, and to consider vistas in every 

 direction. Anyone who has visited the French 

 capital will of course have noted that not even a 

 letter-box or a lamp-post is planted anywhere 

 without consideration of its relation to the street 

 as a whole, which is why the French get so much 

 beauty for little cost. 



Now I ought to be able and willing to do as 

 well with plants that grow in grace as the shrewd 

 Gaul does with stiffly permanent architectural 

 objects. Therefore a series of pictures is to be 

 created, and I need to have those pictures relate 

 in color and season to their surroundings. There 

 can be few or no straight "rows" of anything, and 

 anyhow I have plenty of straight lines in the bases 

 of axial walks and ancient hedges which I must 

 work from and toward. 



