MY GARDEN had most effective expression. This would in- 



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dicate some prominence to be given to large 



naturalistic effects. 



Doubtless, too, the American garden ideal 

 will be expressive of our national social scheme. 

 In theory, our social scheme is democratic. It 

 proposes to make possible for every home the 

 joys and graces that we associate with the 

 name of home. 



There is, indeed, a larger ideal, not only in 

 America, but everywhere, taking on form. A 

 new social ideal is forming and expressing itself 

 in many ways. We are at the beginning of a 

 change in the industrial and social relations of 

 society — a great change in the relation of man 

 to man. 



This change is already finding expression in 

 the art of the garden. Coincident with the 

 social movement is the evolution of a new 

 garden ideal. 



The wonderful gardens of the past were 

 made for the few, and ministered too often to 

 a life of sensuous and selfish pleasure. They 

 were retreats sacred to idleness and exclusive- 

 ness. They belonged to the times when the 



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