Wood and garden; notes and thoughts, practical and critical, of a working amateur . fulness, and its comforting power of solace,must be one of the best of medicines for the healingof his often sorrowing soul. I do not envy the owners of very large garden should fit its master or his tastes justas his clothes do; it should be neither too large nortoo small, but just comfortable. If the garden islarger than he can individually govern and plan andlook after, then he is no longer its master but its slave,,just as surely as the much-too-rich man is the slaveand not the master of his sup
Wood and garden; notes and thoughts, practical and critical, of a working amateur . fulness, and its comforting power of solace,must be one of the best of medicines for the healingof his often sorrowing soul. I do not envy the owners of very large garden should fit its master or his tastes justas his clothes do; it should be neither too large nortoo small, but just comfortable. If the garden islarger than he can individually govern and plan andlook after, then he is no longer its master but its slave,,just as surely as the much-too-rich man is the slaveand not the master of his superfluous wealth. Andwhen I hear of the great place with a kitchen gardenof twenty acres within the walls, my heart sinks as Ithink of the uncomfortable disproportion between theman and those immediately around him, and his vastoutput of edible vegetation, and I fall to wonderinghow much of it goes as it should go, or whether thegreater part of it does not go dribbling away, leakinginto unholy back-channels; and of how the lookingafter it must needs be subdivided; and of how many. Garland-Rose wreathing the end of a Terrace Wall. LARGE AND SMALL GARDENS iTt side-interests are likely to steal in, and altogether hoWgreat a burden of anxiety or matter of temptation itmust give rise to. A grand truth is in the old farmerssaying, The masters eye makes the pig fat; buthow can any one masters eye fat that vast pig oftwenty acres, with all its minute and costly cultivation,its two or three crops a year off all ground given tosoft vegetables, its stoves, greenhouses, orchid andorchard houses, its vineries, pineries, figgeries, and allmanner of glass structures ? But happily these monstrous gardens are but few—I only know of or have seen two, and I hope neverto see another. Nothing is more satisfactory than to see the well-designed and well-organised garden of the large countryhouse, whose master loves his garden, and has goodtaste and a reasonable amount of leisure. I think that the fi
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