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the master. The whole question from both 
standpoints has been admirably dealt with by 
the writer of those very able “ Studies in 
Gardening ” which appeared in the Times . 
He pointed out that to the professional, brought 
up to strict routine work and imbued with 
fervent admiration of “ the florid health of 
his begonias and the enormity of his chrysan- 
themums,” his employer’s ideas are the result 
of ignorance, and he despises him in his heart 
for his demoralising habits and his predilection 
for common plants of coarse growth. The 
gardener’s friends admire geraniums, but his 
master’s friends don’t, and so there is a veiled 
feeling of antagonism. But the gardener is 
only acting up to his highest convictions of 
what he thinks is best. 
I think this feeling is dying out, in the 
large gardens at all events. The single-handed 
gardener who dreamed of his geraniums and 
his bedding out, by day and night, still clings 
to his ideals of what constitute beauty, tidi- 
ness, and utility. But things are settling down 
a little since small formal arrangements of 
little beds and square gardens have come into 
fashion. It is being found that a garden of 
this sort, planted with cannas, begonias, helio- 
trope, scarlet lobelia, geraniums, fuchsias, in 
