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There is a spacious breadth in the design of this garden, 
gardens and the care given them in the sixteenth century, Sir 
Thomas More speaks. Of the gardens of Italy, with their 
formal beauty, which shows the blending of human plan 
with nature’s wealth of material, give, perhaps, the nearest 
approach the West has to that peculiar beauty born of mys- 
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ng imposed by many other gardens less agreeably designed 
ticism and symbol which belong invariably to the East. 
And to the creative mind there is another joy attached 
to the garden, which lies in the very making of it, and is 
that which the artist in any department must feel. Here is 
created something new, which has brought, as one may say, 
something out of nothing, and which shows the beauty it is 
possible to obtain by arranging according to human plan 
such materials as nature abundantly furnishes. The ma- 
terials of the artist or the amateur are in this case trees, 
flowers, spaces of lawn, or masses of shrubs. These are the 
materials of which gardens are made, and those who have 
planned even a small flower bed, in such a spirit, have felt 
in some degree the peculiar pleasure which can come to the 
artist in them. The greatest number and variety of ma- 
terials and the widest range of problems are offered to the 
landscape architect to bring into harmony, for these are not 
limited to growing things alone, but include masonry, the 
making of roads and paths, the setting of objets d’art, and 
even the erection of pergolas and buildings and the making 
of pools. The illustrations accompanying this article show 
all of these, and are all from one enclosure. The planning of 
a large garden, indeed, calls into requisition a knowledge 
of many arts and sciences, and besides these a practical 
experience which can foretell growth and anticipate results 
which are not only to be immediate, but also for years in 
the future. For the peculiarity of this art is that we must 
wait long for the realization of plans, which necessitates 
hope and patience on the part of the owner as well as, in a 
high degree, in the one who made the plans and can see 
imaginatively what they represent. It is years after, as a 
rule, before the full beauty of a garden can be apprehended 
