132 GARDEN-CRAFT. 



gravel, with much also of such geometry as the 

 designer of wall-papers excels in often poorer than 

 that, with an immoderate supply of spouting water, 

 and with trees in tubs as an accompaniment, and, 

 perhaps, griffins and endless plaster-work, and 

 sculpture of the poorer sort." Why " poorer " ? 

 "The other, with right desire, though often awk- 

 wardly (!) accepting Nature as a guide, and en- 

 deavouring to illustrate in our gardens, so far as 

 convenience and knowledge will permit, her many 

 treasures of the world of flowers." (" English 

 Flower Garden "). How sweetly doth bunkum 

 commend itself ! 



It is not that the architect is small-minded 

 enough to cavil at the landscape-gardener's right 

 to display his taste by his own methods, but that he 

 strikes for the same right for himself. It is not that 

 he would rob the landscape-gardener of the pleasure 

 of expressing his own views as persuasively as he 

 can, but that he resents that air of superiority which 

 the other puts on as he bans the comely types and 

 garnered sweetness of old England's garden, that he 

 accents the proscription of the ways of interpreting 

 Nature that have won the sanction of lovers of Art 

 and Nature of all generations of our forefathers, and 

 this from a School whose prerogative dates no farther 

 back than the discovery of the well-meaning, clumsy, 

 now dethroned kitchen-gardener, known a short 

 century since as " the immortal Brown." There is 

 no reviewer so keen as Time ! 



