The Garden in its Glory 



irrelevant articles — a very nightmare of ugliness. 

 It is cruel work having to order the demolition 

 of such erections in which the creator takes an 

 artist's pride. 



It may be that a reliance on regularity and 

 symmetry in decoration is a note of an un- 

 educated mind or an unimaginative nature. 

 Certainly to arrange things in pairs, lines, or 

 rows, or circles calls for less intellectual effort 

 than arranging them unsymmetrically. It is 

 easy to set out daffodils in a border ; it calls 

 for some ingenuity to plant them in the grass 

 with a natural "drift." Yet it seems also to 

 be a trait of the educated Latin mind, for 

 nowhere may it be seen in greater perfection 

 than in Italian architecture. Perhaps we may 

 conclude that it has its due place, but that it is 

 unsuitable to the arrangement of plants in a 

 garden. 



Great as is the garden's April glory, we are 

 conscious that we are in the habit of leaving it 

 a little short of perfection. Perfection, we are 

 told, is to be found in May. After that the 

 heats of summer prevail, the garden is dried 

 up, and, until the autumn rains come, no great 

 wealth of garden flowers is to be looked for, 



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