. AND GARDENS 
MAKING IN AMERICA 
x that American gardens cannot, in time, be as lovely as 
for not realizing that many of them are already as lovely. 
ilgrim settlers Hawthorne, in ‘‘Our Old Home,’’ had 
dening in America: ‘‘ There is not a softer trait to be 
tould have been sensible of their flower roots clinging 
j have felt the necessity of bringing them over sea and 
Jay of the old-fashioned garden, the old-fashioned gar- 
are inclined to consider the introduction of the formal 
gled’’ because we have been in the habit of liking our 
igs, and the nice orderly restraint with its very paucity 
quaint but stiffly balance-clipped evergreens we have 
> appeal to us as thoroughly in the past as it now does. 
o gardens, but just loving them when we came across 
sa garden. Wehave come to be “‘discovering”’ garden- 
ne called his ‘‘new plaything’ —forty acres of woodland 
ad cut with my hatchet an Indian path thro’ the thicket, 
sut it was Emerson who laughingly declared, ‘‘A brave 
es and hotels from these pernicious enchantments.’’ He 
omparable in planning a garden, ploughing it and caring 
a delight which has molded the fair gardens we see here. 
