Aims and Methods 
are fit , and therefore they are rightly artis- 
tic in effect. The lawns themselves are not 
smooth and velvety like those of a Newport 
villa ; but they are evidently lawns and not 
meadows, and their comparative roughness 
is, again, entirely pleasing because entirely 
appropriate. 
And flowers? Somewhere, out of sight 
of the house and the main drives, near the 
kitchen-gardens, there is a garden for flo- 
rists’ flowers. And elsewhere, too, there are 
flowers in plenty — on the slender shrubs 
which grow beneath the trees, on the thick- 
ets of vines and bushes which border the 
open stretches of road, all through the 
grasses of the meadows, and all among the 
rocks which form the transition from lawns 
and copses to narrow beaches ; but these 
are all wild flowers. Nature plants them, 
and Nature is allowed to grow them as she 
will ; they may not be roughly handled by 
man, and neither may their harmonious 
beauty be disturbed by any of man’s addi- 
tions. 
Here, too, where art has done nothing 
but disengage, clarify, and preserve, we find 
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