2 GARDENS IN THE MAKING 



is issued by the authority of the head gardener, — 

 not perhaps the least autocratic of men, — who fears 

 some loss of prestige and some curtailment of his 

 imperial and imperious sway. 



The truth of the matter is that whereas gardening 

 is a craft, and, if you will, a science, garden-design 

 is an art, and requires different knowledge, and 

 faculties of quite another order. The craftsman 

 may sometimes be an artist, and the artist may 

 occasionally include the craftsman, but their business 

 is certainly not synonymous in detail or in kind. 

 Their mingled duties are performed by thousands 

 of people who desire nothing more than to have a 

 garden of beauty, a place which will not only hoard 

 each root and seed, but which will conspire to display 

 the luxuriance of flower and foliage in all their 

 surprising and reckless summer gaiety. Yet how 

 far do they succeed ? Up to a point, of course, they 

 all succeed. A work that receives the ceaseless 

 homage and industry of the crowd — such as is freely 

 given to gardening and garden-making — cannot be 

 wholly stationary or unsuccessful. And since the 

 experience and invention of a number of minds 

 have a cumulative effect, it is possible from the 



