THE AIM OF THE GARDEN 7 



architect — provided, of course, that we approve his 

 taste — is as fittingly employed in those endless 

 combinations of walls and hedges, of terraces and 

 walks, of enclosed gardens and long borders of 

 flowers, of lawns and pools, avenues and glades, as 

 it is in the cunning manipulation of gables and 

 chimneys, bay-windows and balconies, and all the 

 other features that make up a beautiful architectural 

 composition. Nor, in all this, need he attempt to 

 interfere with the proper province of the gardener ; 

 he is the latter's ally, and prepares the way for him. 

 For just as he foresees all the domestic wants in the 

 planning of the house, and prepares it for the future 

 work of the household, so he orders the garden for 

 the gardener, and, having allotted the trees, the 

 planting and the flowers their places, he can leave 

 their care and often the choice of their species to 

 those whose business and experience have fitted 

 them for these duties. 



We have said that the combinations of features 

 which make up a garden are endless, and even that 

 word gives but a poor idea of the infinity of varied 

 efi^ects which the skill of the artist and the activity 

 of Nature can unite to produce. Exact repetition 



