. The perfect garden, how to keep it beautiful and fruitful, with practical hints on eonomical management and the culture of all the principal flowers, fruits, and vegetables; . on-fronted with a situation that will put us on the tenter-hooks of curiosity. Those who have to cater for the horticultural tastesof the masses in the large towns probably know theirpublic just as well as the publisher who producesbedding-plant literature, and it is foolish to blamethem severely. If a park superintendent tried to getahead of public taste, he would probably find thathis Town Council (largely composed o
. The perfect garden, how to keep it beautiful and fruitful, with practical hints on eonomical management and the culture of all the principal flowers, fruits, and vegetables; . on-fronted with a situation that will put us on the tenter-hooks of curiosity. Those who have to cater for the horticultural tastesof the masses in the large towns probably know theirpublic just as well as the publisher who producesbedding-plant literature, and it is foolish to blamethem severely. If a park superintendent tried to getahead of public taste, he would probably find thathis Town Council (largely composed of grocers andthe like) wanted to know what he meant by it. Ofcourse we do not blame the superintendent, but equallywe are not going to take him as our teacher in flowergardening. Occasionally one of his class gives us abed suitable for imitation in a private garden, but notoften. Even where his designs are moderate andpleasing, they are often made up of mixtures of hardyand tender materials. Indoor plants of great size,altogether beyond the scope of amateurs, are beddedout. This is the great defect, considered from theeducational point of view, of the flower gardening at. HOW TO LEARN GARDENING 41 Hampton Court, which is, in the main, well Park and Regents Park are open to the samecriticism. Kew is a better school than the parks, because agreater proportion of hardy material is employed, andplants are given a chance of showing their soil is well prepared, manure is used liberally, theplants are given room to develop into worthy examplesof their kind, and they are intelligently pruned. Thetrees and shrubs are particularly well managed. Therose garden is excellent. There is a good rock-garden. The masses crowd to Kew in Summer, but flowerlovers should go at every opportunity during Autumn,Winter, and Spring, because it is then that the greaterpart of the planting is in progress, and opportunitiesare afforded of seeing how things are done. Thosewho supp
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