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GARDEN DESIGN 17 



''^ That a garden is made for plants is 

 what most people who care for gardens 

 suppose. If a garden has any use, it 

 is to treasure for us beautiful flowers, 

 shrubs, and trees. { In these days — when 

 our ways of building are the laughing- 

 stock of all who care for beautiful 

 buildings — there, is plenty for the archi- 

 tect to do without spoiling our gardens ! 

 Most of the houses built in our time 

 are so bad, that even the best gardening 

 could hardly save them from contempt. 

 ^Our garden flora is now so large, that 

 a life's work is almost necessary to know 

 it. How is a man to make gardens 

 wisely if he does not know what has 

 to be grown in them ? I do not mean 

 that we are to exclude other men than 

 the landscape gardener proper from the 

 garden. We want all the help we can 

 get from those whose tastes and training 

 enable them to help us — the landscape 

 painter best of all, if he cares for gardens 



