MY GARDEN And yet each of these gardens of the past 

 OF DREAMS was the "garden glorious" of its time. Each 

 was an attempt to express an ideal, and in its 

 way reflected the life of its time. Each has 

 contributed something of permanence to gar- 

 den art, for the lasting in the art of any people 

 is that which is true to the temperament of 

 that people. 



Garden art is no exception. Gardens of any 

 period express something of the life of the time, 

 and in so far as the world-wide laws of all true 

 art are adhered to, they are beautiful and 

 furnish motives for future development of 

 garden art. 



True art will always give form to the ideals 

 of a people. But the ideals change — they grow 

 or decay. 



The American garden, for us the "garden 

 glorious" — what is it to be? 



There are some very beautiful and notable 

 gardens in America, but garden art is still 

 young with us; as some one has expressed it, 

 "in the awkward age." 



It seems to be evident that no one school of 

 landscape architects will dictate the American 



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