THE VOICE OF for human ends. Art in the garden is the hu- 



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man element appropriating and elevating the 

 natural for human purpose. 



This does not mean that nature is to be 



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denaturalized or cultivated contrary to its 

 instinctive purpose, but that the instinctive 

 functions of nature are to be lifted into the 

 higher human sphere. The great end of art is 

 not merely to enable us to see the beauty of 

 nature but to take the material of beauty 

 which nature furnishes and weave it into a 

 higher beauty expressive of human personality. 

 The very idea of the garden requires that it 

 be beautiful. This is its first demand upon the ar- 

 tist, and for this work he is rich in material, for 

 he is to produce not merely representations of 

 nature, but show us the living things of nature 

 in such relations as will enable us to see them 

 in their greatest beauty. He is to bring them 

 within the human sphere, so as to enhance the 

 beauty, not only by cultivation, but by asso- 

 ciation which shall make them expressive of 

 human sentiment and feeling. 



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