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dark cypress spires rise through the silver mist 

 of olive trees. When these Italian gardens are 

 so much admired, photographed, and visited, 

 why are the Mughal baghs of the Indian foot-hills 

 and the great gardens of the Dal Lake forgotten, 

 and Indian garden-craft as a whole ignored ? 



I am speaking now of garden-design, gardening 

 in its artistic sense, for gardening in a horti- 

 cultural sense still flourishes in India. It is 

 best to be quite clear about these two aspects of 

 garden-craft. One may be regarded as the 

 building of the house, the other as the furnishing. 

 One is the art of building and planning for all 

 time and for all generations ; the other the art 

 wherewith each generation in its turn replants 

 according to its pleasure. Speaking strictly, 

 horticulture is not an art at all, but only the 

 science of improving form and flavour, scent and 

 colour, and is quite apart from the garden- 

 craft which afterwards can in combination and 

 arrangement make use of such knowledge with 

 artistic skill. 



Naturally in a scientific age, the scientific 

 side of gardening makes the first appeal ; but 

 both aspects are equally important, and it is 

 the common confusion of these two quite separate 



