GARDENS AND ARCHITECTURE 163 



tention and less deserving of the neglect they 

 suifer, than garden arches. Perhaps garden- 

 beginners are prone to overlook the possibili- 

 ties in this direction. It is not enough to plant 

 flowering things, have them spring up and bear 

 blossoms, to constitute a garden. 



A garden is something more than a display 

 of a nimiber of plants. It is a creation of 

 man's ingenuity in devising ways and means 

 of intensifying the beauties of plant growth by 

 selection, arrangement, color, contrast and de- 

 sign. Thus it happens that after a time every 

 garden-maker instinctively turns his attention 

 to the structural side of gardening. Perhaps 

 his first season has found him content to plant 

 a bed of things and watch them grow, rejoic- 

 ing and finding satisfaction in their reaching 

 florescence unretarded. But later he will wish 

 to make a "house of flowers" as it were, even 

 to imitate some of nature's plant arrangements. 

 He will wish to construct arbors, mazes, formal 

 and sunken gardens, he will wish to sow a cor- 

 ner with old fashioned flowers which shall fiU 

 the vista with a blaze of unpatterned gorgeous- 

 ness, but if he finds that the bit of ground at his 

 disposal is not sufiicient to permit these experi- 



