urns, bowls, jars, and even plant tubs, medalions, 

 bas-reliefs, walls, copings, colonades, paths and 

 edgings — everything is harmonious to its en- 

 vironment. "I have been here always, my exist- 

 ence began and shall end here," each detail seems 

 to say, and we amateur gardeners wonder why. 

 I will tell you. Those famous gardens were never 

 realized without mistakes in their making, but 

 those mistakes were not allowed to remain; the 

 instant they were recognized they were removed. 

 Those gardens were evolved from a woman's 

 ideals and an individuality of thought and effort 

 achieved by no other woman in England, and I 

 might go further and say with truth, by no other 

 woman in the world. 



We must study garden details, we must be- 

 gin by being severely critical of every little thing, 

 the trifles that are usually overlooked, gradually 

 the little things, the trifles, and the big things, 

 too, will find their harmonious home that they 



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