called the "gardenesque, " a combination of ART IN 



u f i A- f 1- u THE GARDEN 



the formal and informal in such a way as to set 



the garden apart from untamed nature, and 

 yet give us its informal grace in a certain free- 

 dom of growth permissible within a more or 

 less formal design. 



Something of this we should seek to realize 

 in our gardens. But that is not all that we may 

 have. The beauty of form and color merely 

 as such does not constitute the whole of the 

 charm of your garden and mine. The garden 

 implies the human presence and interest. It 

 is a place for thought and for dreams, and as 

 we grow in intimacy with the flowers and bet- 

 ter understand their language, they come to 

 have a new and higher beauty. It might be 

 called the beauty of suggestion. We link the 

 material with the spiritual world, and the 

 more intimately we enter into the life of nature 

 the more surely does the material become 

 spiritualized. 



That which I hold to be the main formative 

 principle of art in the garden that which uses 

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