Studio: international art (28.1903)

A Suburban House and Garden

beautiful in every single
thing which pertains to
them, in which form and
colour play an important
part, making lives healthier
and brighter, surely this
ideal can be extended,
and a trained intelligence
brought to bear upon the
garden, giving to it just
that same thought and
care which are bestowed
on the house, looking to
it also for a share in the
continual education and
refinement of mind and
eye which association with
beautiful objects must in-
evitably bring. Few who
have felt the calm and

peaceful influence of some "the orchard," harrow : the hall window a. Mitchell, architect

old and well-loved garden
would deny that a world 01

happiness can be shut within its mellowed walls; our illustrations, should not be as much a work
and there seems no reason why many a small of art as the house it encircles,
garden, less even in extent than the subject of It is interesting to turn to a sentence from

an essay by Huxley,
" Evolution and Ethics,"
in which he is speaking of
the tendency of cultivated
and imported plants and
flowers to be soon super-
seded and choked out
in the struggle for life by
the plants indigenous to
the locality, if left entirely
alone in a garden with-
out the agency of man to
assist them. Many of
these plants are themselves
the works of art of man,
inasmuch as they have
never existed except under
conditions such as obtain
in the garden. He says :—
"It will be admitted
that the garden is as much
a work of art, or artifice,
as anything that can be
mentioned. The energy
localised in certain human
bodies, directed by simi-
larly localised intellects,

" the orchard," harrow : the garden a. mitchell, architect has produced a Collocation

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