If the art of gardening is at last to turn back from 

 her extravagances and rest with her other sisters, it 

 is, above everything, necessary to have clearly be- 

 fore you what you require. . . . It is certainly 

 tasteless and inconsistent to desire to encompass the 

 world with a garden-wall, but very practicable and 

 reasonable to make a garden . . . into a charac- 

 teristic whole to the eye, heart, and understanding 

 alike.'' 



— Schiller. 



