2 YARD AND GARDEN 



he is but responding to a common and natural 

 impulse, to obtain for himself that which has 

 pleased or interested him. He is impatient of 

 theory and eager for results. Disquisitions on 

 the fundamental laws of gardening or land- 

 scaping are tedious if not perplexing and, in 

 his judgment, of little value. His conclusion 

 may be hasty but to some extent it is entirely 

 correct. There are no hard and fast rules for 

 gardening and particularly for the art of orna- 

 mental gardening, whether it be conducted on 

 large or small scale, on a country estate or the 

 back-yard of a city lot. 



There are some principles best remembered 

 but even they are not without innumerable va- 

 riation in application. In gardening, as in 

 house building, individual taste, temper and 

 aspirations are reflected and each garden, con- 

 sequently, is a law unto itself. Still, under- 

 neath this disclosure of the gardener's own 

 nature and individuality there are broad princi- 

 ples, applicable to all and the foundation of 

 all. They are simple, obvious and natural. 

 The beginner can make fair progress with noth- 

 ing more than an instinctive knowledge of them. 

 Any day in the year, in any wood or meadow, 

 on the banks of any stream, even by the coun- 



