CHAPTER XXIII 

 THE GARDEN AND THE FLOWER 



IN THE foregoing pages I have endeavoured 

 to make it clear that the garden, considered 

 as a place for flower-growing, stands in relation 

 to the flower as a house to its inmates; in other 

 words, that the garden is for the flower or plant. 

 For claiming this very obvious relationship, 

 I have elsewhere incurred some amount of 

 criticism, which significantly came from persons 

 interested in architecture. I do not propose 

 to answer such criticism in detail, but I may 

 fittingly conclude this book with some general 

 remarks on the subject. 



With no sort of prejudice against architects, 

 I may say that a certain few of them seem to 

 regard the garden as a place in which to expend 

 an overflow of architectural effort, and if we 

 may judge by results, these outlying works 

 are more often than not conceived without the 

 remotest understanding of the requirements 

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