Studio: international art (21.1901)

Garden-Making

garden at barrow court by f. inigo thomas

his liking, such as
the hyacinth, hy-
drangea, Primula
sinensis, Canter-
bury bell, etc., till
they are beyond
all recognition of
their original
grace. And many
other flowers have
suffered more or
less change, as the
rose, the tulip and
the daffodil. So
it has to be pro-
tested that not all
flowers are now as
beautiful as they
may once have
been. The original
unimproved form
of them is likely
to be the more

varnished rusticities in pitch-pine—but
let the entrance be with oak and stone,
plainly used and hand-dressed, and
showing the marks of simple homely
preparation : or in plain workmanlike
form of deal painted green or white,
with common brick plainly treated, set
off and weathered with roughcast and
thatch : let such simple manners on the
outside give foretaste of what is the
simple, straightforward art of gardening
within.

But here one word should be said of
the flowers themselves. Are not all
flowers beautiful? say some. Yes, and
so are all men and women ; yet we have
our preferences—our grades and kinds
of beauty. However " what is beauty "
may be disputed over, the love of
beauty is an undoubted fact, and the
passion for it induces criteria accord-
ing to the nature of the lover. So while
the modiste recreates some portions of
the human shape and exhibits his
triumphs in the fashion plate, the
sculptor has generally other ideals.
Much the same divergences of taste
have taken place as to flowers: the
florist has recreated many of them to garden at bridgefoot by g. f. bodley, a.r.a.