8 MY GROWING GARDEN 



friendly professional aid of a man whose mind and 

 heart are so full of the glory of the land and what 

 grows on it that he plants garden poems and builds 

 park epics right along. And I have, too, reason to 

 pity the imfortunates who try to make a garden 

 home by the T-square method, or who have it 

 "sent in" ready made, without any clear ideal of 

 developing the individuahty that every bit of 

 God's green earth can hold. Both a home and a 

 garden, and much more a garden-home like Breeze 

 Hill, deserve the better treatment of individual 

 thought, preferably aided by consultation with a 

 good landscape architect, or engineer, or designer, 

 or whatever these fine men call themselves. And 

 any such place will reward its owner who loves it 

 and patiently works with it; reward him with a 

 true garden individuahty all its own. 



If this may be done, there will be less tiresome 

 monotony and less thoughtless duplication of 

 plants. Gardens will not be mere repetitions of 

 hydrangea and golden glow, but will show the 

 taste and knowledge and ideals of the makers of 

 them. 



It may easily be seen, by now, that I am plan- 

 ning for a garden that shall be my own, in the 

 sense of ideals; but that shall also be saved by 

 reliance upon skilled advice from the errors I might 



