I04 Landscape Gardening 



tion of a garden will consist in no one of them being carried 

 to an extreme. Each is to be consulted separately, but the 

 joint teachings of all acted upon, such as will best suit the 

 circumstances and demands of the case being kept para- 

 mount. Not that such things as different tones and styles 

 are to be sought after in the same place, unless it be a large 

 one and susceptible of partial division, but that some kind 

 of expression, and one particular manner should be sought, 

 and the place not be made devoid of manner or expressionless. 



That simplicity is not altogether at variance with richness, 

 however incongruous they may appear, there will be httle 

 difficulty in proving. A garment may be of the most superb 

 material and yet its shape and color be very simple. Dignity 

 and even majesty of mien may often be accompanied with an 

 air of simplicity which may exalt rather than weaken it. 

 And so a garden may be devoid of a single rudiment of com- 

 plexity, — be simple in its plan, its purpose, and its orna- 

 ments, — but that simplicity shall be so tasteful and so 

 noble and sustained with such excellent materials that rich- 

 ness will be manifestly consistent with it. 



Nor will unity be a whit the more incapable of being 

 attained in conjunction with variety. This last has only to 

 be prevented from degenerating into extravagance, — to be 

 duly pruned and restrained, — and not a thread of the woof 

 of harmony need be broken. It is not any unusual number 

 or diversity of instruments and voices that will jar the music 

 of a chorus. Such a powerful orchestra will rather swell the 

 concord if well regulated and rightly attuned. And variety 

 in a garden will alike heighten its harmony, when the multi- 

 pHcation of parts is effected with judgment and forethought. 



Again the blending of parts has been shown in an earlier 

 page to be not utterly foreign to contrast, since things of 

 opposite characters may be brought together, and even into 



