of gardens, however much they vary, must THE 

 conform to certain first principles. GAR. 



Trace the analogy a little farther. Poetry is 

 a means of expression, but so also is prose. The 

 poet is an interpreter. He gives voice to the 

 common thought and feeling, but so also may 

 the writer of prose. The difference is in the 

 form of expression. Poetry is beautiful thought 

 or feeling which lies deeper than ordinary 

 speech expressed in rhythmic form, not merely 

 uttered, as in prose. 



The garden is an ordered expression of the 

 beauty and harmony of nature. It may be 

 made, like a poem, a revelation of nature's 

 harmonies, and as such, gardening, like poetry, 

 must be ranked as an art, and must conform 

 to the world-wide laws of art. 



Not all poetry conforms to one model. There 

 is not one style of garden accepted to the exclu- 

 sion of all others. Like Browning among the 

 poets, a garden may be unique, may even, like 

 him, revel in seeming confusion and strive 

 against the trammels of order. There may be 

 a barbaric sense of color and lack of form, but, 

 as for such poetry to be acknowledged it must 

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