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SHAKESPEARE’S GARDEN 
Mitford at Batsford set before us the cultivation of 
flowers in Nature's methods, their native elegance 
unrestrained and unfettered by man. The leading 
idea is to copy Nature as near as may be, and discard 
the tiring, gaudy colouring and set lines of bedding 
plants, the straight rectangular walks and plots, and 
to have everywhere constant change of shape and 
colour, an orderly wilderness of bloom against a 
background of ever-varying green. 
