GARDEN DESIGN 67 



Garden" this is what is offered us as 

 sense on a charming subject, familiar to 

 many, so that all may judge of the 

 depth of this foolish talk about it ! 

 Such a writer discussing in this way 

 a metaphysical or obscure subject might 

 swim on in his inky water for ever, and 

 no one know where he was ! 



Let us here point to the fact, that any garden 

 whatsoever is but Nature idealised, pastoral scenery 

 rendered in a fanciful manner. It matters not 

 what the date, size, or style of the garden, it 

 represents an idealisation of Nature. Real nature 

 exists outside the artist and apart from him. The 

 Ideal is that which the artist conceives to be an 

 interpretation of the outside objects, or that which 

 he adds to the objects. The garden gives imagina- 

 tive form to emotions the natural objects have 

 awakened in man. The raison d'etre of a garden 

 is man's feeling the ensembk. 



But we cannot allow him to bring the 

 false and confusing " art " drivel of the 

 day into the garden without showing 

 the absurdity of his ideas. 



The illustrations are of the most 



