of the sweetest flowers delight to grow and AR 

 blossom. While a good open lawn is indispen- 

 sable, plants may be grouped, where space per- 

 mits, that through and among these may be 

 smaller glades, giving the place that air of in- 

 definiteness so alluring to the meditative mind. 

 To repeat, the garden must be beautiful. 

 It is the task of the artist of the garden to help 

 us to see its beauty at its highest. To this end 

 nature contributes two elements beauty in 

 form and beauty in color. These elements of 

 beauty appear in different proportions in dif- 

 ferent kinds of art, and human appreciations 

 of them differ. It will be enlightening to note 

 how nature uses them. She makes free use of 

 both, but not without some sense of propor- 

 tion. She lightens and glorifies her forms with 

 all the tints and tones of color, delicate and 

 chaste here, rich and flashing with glorious 

 beauty there; but no one can study a land- 

 scape, or a small section of it, without seeing 

 how greatly its grace and charm are due to its 

 lines, now wavy and undulating, again straight 



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