. The book of garden management : Comprising information on laying out and planting Gardening -- Great Britain. EELVIDEKE GAKDE>'S. CHAPTER V. ON GABDENING STYLES AND GARDEN PLANS. 124. It should be the object of Art to render Nature still more charmini,': " For Jfature ne'er deserts the wise and pure; Ko plot so narrow be, but Nature there, No waste so vacant, but may well employ Each faculty of sense, and keep the heart Awake to love and ; Not, however, that Art should ever strive to imitate so as to be mistaken for Nature ; this, if possible, is not desirable,
. The book of garden management : Comprising information on laying out and planting Gardening -- Great Britain. EELVIDEKE GAKDE>'S. CHAPTER V. ON GABDENING STYLES AND GARDEN PLANS. 124. It should be the object of Art to render Nature still more charmini,': " For Jfature ne'er deserts the wise and pure; Ko plot so narrow be, but Nature there, No waste so vacant, but may well employ Each faculty of sense, and keep the heart Awake to love and ; Not, however, that Art should ever strive to imitate so as to be mistaken for Nature ; this, if possible, is not desirable,—it would rob Art of half its merit, without attaining either beauty or grandeur; for, after all, the gardener operates on a very limited scale, even when the widest scope is given to his genius. A gai-den is a work of Art, and Art ought to be avowedly present in every part of it. The meandering path, ^^anding through tangled thickets, beneath the spreading cedar, of which the ''lichen staineth the stem," is as much a work of art as the highly-embellished geometrical garden, the architectural terraces and vases which overlook it, or the foun- tain which occupies its centre. Nature, in dishabille, is beautiful in a wood, at home on the bleak moor and inigged mountain,—often admissible in a park, but would be incongruous and misplaced in a garden ; and where such features have been introduced, on the pretence of making "natural gardens/'. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Beeton, Samuel Orchart, 1831-1877; Shaw, Henry ; from the library of and initials?. London : S. O. Beeton
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