Here is the essential requirement of art in AR 



u TU /v f Ju A . u THE GARDEN 



the garden, ihe Lije or the garden must be 



understood and its laws obeyed, or disaster will 

 overtake us. In the garden we deal with living 

 things, and we must learn from them the laws 

 according to which they exist and thrive. 

 This done, the living things will yield them- 

 selves freely to our hands, and reward us with 

 a wonderfully enhanced beauty. 



The/orm which art in the garden must take 

 depends upon purpose. The kind of garden 

 to be made determines the idea or sentiment 

 which is to be given expression. 



There is a vast difference between the re- 

 quirements of a public park or the grounds of 

 a large estate and those of the more modest 

 home garden, and it is the home garden and its 

 intimacies that we have in mind in these pages. 



It is also true that the environment of the 

 home garden may require more formal treat- 

 ment, or less, as the case may be; but the im- 

 portant thing is that the home garden shall 

 express the home idea and the home feeling. 



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