CHAPTER II 



PLANNING THE GAEDEN 



Before there were gardeners there were gar- 

 dens. The first gardener, no doubt, was a 

 fence-builder; lie appropriated whatever he 

 found growing, that was of use or benefit, in- 

 closed it to exclude marauders and to protect 

 and safeguard it the better. Consequently in 

 the beginning a garden was an inclosed space. 

 It is easily conceivable that in this inclosed 

 space not all the native plants which might 

 prove of value to this primitive gardener were 

 to be found. He inclosed, doubtless, what he 

 could, but some were too remotely situated to 

 be included. It became his problem, therefore, 

 to introduce such of these as he desired into 

 his protected area and, in the subsequent op- 

 erations, we have the first garden planning and 

 the first actual gardening. 



This primitive ancestor was not without 

 definite plan when he went beyond his crude 

 pale and brought into his inclosure some plant 



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