Aims and Methods 



shrubs set around its foundations will be all 

 that is needed to complete an harmonious 

 picture of what a northern seaside home 

 should be. 



On all this big estate no planting what- 

 ever has been done except the planting of 

 useful crops in places where they are seen 

 only by those who may seek them out ; and 

 nowhere upon it does there stand a single 

 tree or conspicuous shrub which a gardener 

 would call a '^fine specimen." Yet it is 

 one of the most satisfying, one of the most 

 artistic, country-places that I can call to 

 mind. No artist would wish it other v/ise. 

 Any lover of art w^ould know that it would 

 be ruined by the least attempt at conven- 

 tional gardening, the smallest importation 

 of florists' plants. Thousands of trees have 

 been cut down to form the many miles of 

 road, and the roads are scientifically con- 

 structed. But their curves through the 

 woods, or along the water's edge, are as nat- 

 ural-seeming as they are graceful ; and no 

 hand is ever allowed to touch their borders 

 except when the shrubs, which Nature grows 

 here very lavishly, trespass in inconvenient 



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