The Art of Gardening 
true picture appears ; and when once it has 
revealed itself, day to day attention will be 
forever needed to preserve it from the alter- 
ing effects of time. It is easy to imagine, 
therefore, how often neglect or interference 
must work havoc with the best intentions, 
how often the passage of years must destroy 
or travesty the best results. 
Still another thing which prevents popu- 
lar recognition of this art is our lack of 
clearly understood terms with which to 
speak about it. “Gardens” once meant 
pleasure-grounds of every kind, and “gar- 
dener ’ * then had an adequately artistic 
sound. But as the meaning of the first 
term was gradually specialized, so the other 
gradually came to denote a mere grower of 
plants. “ Landscape-gardener ” was a title 
invented by the artists of the eighteenth 
century to mark the new tendency which 
they represented — the search for “ natural ” 
as opposed to “formal” beauty; and it 
seemed to them to need an apology as sa- 
voring, perhaps, of grandiloquence or con- 
ceit. But as taste declined in England, this 
title was assumed by men who had not the 
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