Formal Gardening 
where Nature has prepared for his work. 
Each and every new problem needs new 
consideration. Each, as Andre says, “ needs 
individual taste, the touch of the artist, who 
should above all be guided by art, and who 
often will have to struggle against the exac- 
tions of his client and against his own ten- 
dency to give free course to that will-o’-the- 
wisp which is so difficult to fetter — the im- 
agination.” 
And Emerson tells us the same thing in 
his own trenchant fashion : 6 ‘ It is best to 
pay in your land a skilful gardener, or to 
buy good sense applied to gardening.” We 
shall never be well served by theories that 
this style is right and this is wrong, that 
one method of treatment or one kind of 
feature is beautiful, and other methods, other 
features, are inartistic. We shall be well 
served only by good sense, taking account 
of particular local facts, and based upon 
principles which themselves are based upon 
the same great laws that direct intelligent 
effort in all the other arts. Simplicity, 
harmony, appropriateness, variety in unity 
— clear expressions of clearly conceived and 
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