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studious as regards effect, but we must not show 

 it. The question of colour-grouping is certainly 

 one worthy of careful consideration ; for if garden- 

 ing is not exactly an art that " doth mend Nature," 

 it is, at all events, a selective art, picking and 

 choosing of Nature's best and bringing this to- 

 gether within special confines, there to show in 

 a series of close-knit tableaux that which wild 

 Nature spreads out far and wide among much 

 that, aesthetically, is of secondary "happiness." 



