Ruropean and Japanese Gardens 
work is not l;aid out or undertaken which cannot be easily exe¬ 
cuted and maintained without taxing the resources of the 
owner. 
With th<e English, gardening is so old an art that the cost 
of maintaining can be as readily estimated beforehand as can 
the cost of thie execution. Tradition, habit, social custom have 
all combined! to fix the lines on which work shall be conducted, 
and thus to make a standard of “form” used in the athletic sense, 
for the mainttenance of the service of the house, the stable, and 
the grounds. If a man can afford but three servants, his house 
is arranged ion the basis of what three servants can do thor¬ 
oughly well, and he will not have a larger house unless he can 
afford to have his service adequate. His stable will be regu¬ 
lated with eq ual care. He will have only such horses and car¬ 
riages as cam be kept in first-rate condition. Applying these 
same principles to the garden, collecting and making use of 
the cumulati ve experience of many generations of gardeners, 
he lays out his ground with clear foresight as to its mainte¬ 
nance. Notlhing is to be slovenly, nothing neglected. The 
A GARDEN BACKED WITH TREES 
