worked into proper relations with plant life in t 



. . 1-11- i THE GARDEN 



the garden, just as the jeweler brings out the 



beauty of ruby or opal in the setting or pattern 

 in metal in which he places it. 



The controversy between the two great 

 schools of landscape architecture, the formal 

 and the informal, need not confuse us. The 

 simple fact that the home garden must be re- 

 lated to the house, which is artificial and for- 

 mal, requires a more or less formal treatment 

 of the garden, especially in the approach to 

 the house and the carrying out of architec- 

 tural lines from the house outward and into 

 the garden. This is required by the fundamen- 

 tal laws which govern proportion and design. 

 It is necessary to a natural and logical transi- 

 tion from the artificial structure of wood or 

 stone to the creations of nature in the garden. 

 The garden mediates between the house, the 

 most formal kind of art, and nature, which is 

 entirely lacking in art. The garden makes the 

 house and home a part of the larger life of the 

 world, binding them to nature, at the same 



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