House and Garden 
THE RED GARDEN 
well repaid by the pleasure which comes from such 
sympathetic use. And for this use, such adjuncts 
as are pictured here, or others of their kind, are in- 
dispensible. As well a room without its furniture 
as a garden without its seats, tables, chairs, benches, 
tea-rooms, pergolas, arbors, sun-dial, walls, ter¬ 
races and steps up and down. 
A recent writer has defined gardening as “the 
art of peace and luxury,” but this does injustice. 
An art of peace of course, but by no means neces¬ 
sarily of luxury unless one be thinking only of the 
stately garden of the Italian and French Renais¬ 
sance. Gardening, though not, perhaps, primari¬ 
ly a domestic art—since the garden in some form 
is, or should be, considered an indispensible setting 
of every building; a link between art and nature— 
ought to be regarded by the householder of even 
the most moderate income as an opportunity for 
adding to the charm of home life by simple and in¬ 
expensive means. 
On this point we cannot do better than quote the 
following passage from Mr. Clipston Sturgis’ paper 
on the English Garden :f 
1 he whole attitude of mind of the Englishman 
fin “European and Japanese Gardens,” Philadelphia. Henry T. Coates 
& Co,. 1902, 
is the desire to satisfy a need rather than to supply a 
luxury, and therefore this is generally found to be 
the chief motive in the laying out of bis garden. 
The great majority of English gardens have devel¬ 
oped in direct response to practical needs, and if 
one studies these needs and sees how they have been 
met, the history of nine-tenths of the English gar¬ 
dens is given. 
“Before taking up in detail the needs which de¬ 
cide the character of the grounds more removed 
from the house, it will be well to point out that the 
English invariably carry into their grounds the same 
desire for privacy and separation which is noticeable 
in the bouse. The careful separation of the kitchen 
and offices from the master’s quarters has already 
been remarked, and a similar separation is to be 
found between other parts of the household and be¬ 
tween individual rooms. The nurseries are apart; 
the master’s own rooms are apart; the guest-rooms 
are apart; and finally, except in suites of rooms used 
only for entertainment, the individual rooms are 
well divided from each other. This same principle 
underlies the garden plan. 1 be place is consider¬ 
ed as an outdoor house. The grounds are divided 
up according to their use, and each portion has its 
well established boundaries.” 
