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the copy is based on a print or a drawing ill 

 understood, the result is probably disastrous. 

 Short cuts in these matters are not to be found. 

 Thought and imagination, skilled knowledge 

 and a light hand in execution, are the necessities, 

 and they are not to be set out in the terms of a 

 chemist's prescription. There is much that the 

 amateur can do in the garden, but when he 

 starts on his wild career in large design, he runs 

 a very good chance of sharing the fate of Icarus. 



REGINALD BLOMFIELD. 



New Court, Temple, 

 May 190 1. 



