heart of the garden, that from it we may look AR 

 in every direction. 



Such is what I have ventured to call the 

 beauty of suggestion; but there is another ele- 

 ment of beauty of spiritual quality which the 

 garden may have in a high degree. As the gar- 

 den grows, association touches it more and 

 more with a spiritual beauty. Each plant, as 

 we watch and care for it, acquires a little his- 

 tory of its own, and about many a spot or plant 

 tender memories of those we love are gathered. 

 And so our gardens become rich in poetry and 

 history. 



This is why for me a garden must have trees, 

 if possible old trees, in it, for nothing in nature 

 suggests so much of the spiritual, nothing so 

 gathers traditions about it, as do the trees. A 

 garden without trees must always be incom- 

 plete. It is music lacking the strong chords 

 that give dignity and deep harmony to the 

 composition. Lacking the shade and shadow, 

 the landscape composition in an esthetic as- 

 pect falls as far short of fulness and meaning. 

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