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design ; the gardener should see to that. The 

 horticulturist and the gardener are indispensable, 

 but they should work under control, and they 

 stand in the same relation to the designer as the 

 artist's colourman does to the painter, or per- 

 haps it would be fairer to say, as the builder and 

 his workmen stand to the architect. The two 

 ought to work together. The designer, whether 

 professional or amateur, should lay down the 

 main lines and deal with the garden as a 

 whole, but the execution, such as the best 

 method of forming beds, laying turf, planting 

 trees, and pruning hedges, should be left to the 

 gardener, whose proper business it is. 



