ii8 Hints ON Landscape Gardening 



Even so one might compare a higher garden 

 art with music and, at least as fitly as architecture 

 has been called "frozen music," to call garden 

 art " growing music." It, too, has its symphonies, 

 adagios, and allegros, which stir the senses with 

 vague but powerful emotions. Further, as Nature 

 offers her features to the landscape gardener for 

 use and choice, so does she offer to music her fun- 

 damental tones ; beautiful like the human voice, 

 the song of birds, the thunder of the tempest, the 

 roaring of the hurricane, the bodeful wailing of 

 branches — ugly sounds like howling, bellowing, 

 clattering, and squeaking. Yet the instruments 

 bring all these out and work, according to cir- 

 cumstances, ear-splitting sounds in the hands of 

 the incompetent, entrancing when arranged by 

 the artist in an orderly whole. The genial Na- 

 ture painter does the same. He studies the mani- 

 fold material given him by Nature and by his art 

 works the scattered parts into a beautiful whole, 

 whose melody flatters the senses, but unfolds its 

 highest powers and yields the greatest enjoyment 

 only when harmony has breathed true soul into 

 the work. 



But I wander too far from my theme. I shall 

 be asked, perhaps, after this enumeration of all 

 my difficulties, why 1 undertook such a work at 

 all? The grounds for doing so are the follow- 

 ing:— 



When I conceived the plan of such a large 

 undertaking, my first' reflection was this, that it 

 does not become a man, who has succeeded to 



