Aims and Methods 
which we want to realize ; to dispose our 
ground, and to choose and place our plants, 
with the requirements of this picture before 
us — this is to get the highest degree of pleas- 
ure from our planting. Nor can it be ob- 
jected that, when the picture is once ar- 
ranged, our work and pleasure are over un- 
less it can be perpetually tampered with and 
disarranged. To the artist in gardening the 
mutability of Nature is often a heavy cross, 
since he knows that when his result is con- 
sidered “ finished, ” he must leave it to 
others who will permit it (even if they do 
not aid it) to transform itself into something 
very different. But the proprietor or gar- 
dener who is trying on a modest scale to 
emulate the artist, finds in this very muta- 
bility an assurance of the permanence of his 
pleasure. Day by day and year by year he 
can watch the development of his picture, 
guard against Nature’s disfiguring touches, 
welcome her happy accidents, and carefully 
correct and retouch the result himself while 
preserving its general integrity. And this 
work will surely be pleasant, for to the sci- 
entific satisfaction of the cultivator will be 
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