GARDEN DESIGN 23 



True Use of a Garden 



It is surely flying in the face of Nature to fill 

 our gardens with tropical plants, as we are urged 

 to do by the writers on landscape gardening, ignor- 

 ing the entire difference of climate and the fact that 

 a colour which may look superb in the midst of other 

 strong colours will look gaudy and vulgar amongst 

 our sober tints, and that a leaf like that of the 

 Yucca, which may be all very well in its own 

 country, is out of scale and character amidst the 

 modest foliage of our English trees. {JThe Formal 

 Garden.') 



A passage full of nonsense ! The true 

 use and first reason of a garden is to 

 keep and grow for us plants not in our 

 woods and mostly from other countries 

 than our own ! The Yucca, we are 

 told by the authors, is a " plant out of 

 scale and character among the modest 

 foliage of our English trees"! The 



