or garden is an educated taste. In the garden ART IN 

 it will be seen in the selection of plants and 

 flowers and their grouping, and in the sparing 

 use of architectural decorations. It forbids 

 anything that produces confusion. It removes 

 angularity and harshness. It reveals itself in 

 gracefulness of lines, easiness of transitions, 

 and in sparing use of striking contrasts. It will 

 not permit the grotesque, whether in plants or 

 fantastic arrangement of beds. It refuses to 

 give room to the eccentric. It always recog- 

 nizes the fitness of things. 



It follows that to express successfully what 

 I have called the home feeling there must be 

 present that element in pure beauty which is 

 called simplicity. 



Simplicity is the opposite of ostentation, 

 extravagance, elaboration, all sins against a 

 refined taste, whether within the house or out- 

 side of it. We need, however, to discriminate. 

 Simplicity does not mean poverty of expres- 

 sion. It does not require that the design be 

 bald or severe any more than it requires a face 



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