A GARDEN NOTE-BOOK 



right use of money bears witness to the right 

 quaKty of mind; and in a garden cherished by its 

 possessor reflections of the mind of that possessor 

 are quickly seen. To apply the idea to the large 

 and notable garden, it is the judicious spending of 

 money here which will or wiU not be apparent. 

 The memory of every lover of gardening will serve 

 him truly as he recalls on occasion the great, bleak, 

 barren gardens of his visits, gardens on which 

 fortunes have been spent and from which he coidd 

 only turn sadly away; and with equal certainty 

 wUl he call to mind some tiny square of delicately 

 managed flowers which are true expressions of the 

 very texture of its owner's thoughts and hopes. 



A time will come when all America, in Matthew 

 Arnold's lovely phrase, shall be "spreading her 

 gardens to the moonlight," and, as that time ap- 

 proaches, the quiet beauty of simple, good design, 

 of delicate and harmonious color, and, where pos- 

 sible, of good surroundings, must impress itself 

 more and more upon our people. Those who 

 know must practise this, that those who need to 

 know may have a right example. In no art, in 

 no pursuit, is a following more sure than in the 

 art and in the pursuit of gardening. 



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