Meehans' monthly : a magazine of horticulture, botany and kindred subjects . thesame rule, and Dutch gardens, and Frenchgardens,—gardens laid out by foot-rule andcompass, were the order of the day. The natural style came in as a revolt againstthese straight-laced customs. The result, asis usual in such protests, is an extreme on theother side. There is scarcely any art at may be a plot of grass, to be kept short i86 MEEHANS MONTHLY—GENERAL GARDENING. [Dec. bj a lawn-mower, and trees and scat-tered around, as if one had thrown a handfulof stones, and set in a plant on the spo
Meehans' monthly : a magazine of horticulture, botany and kindred subjects . thesame rule, and Dutch gardens, and Frenchgardens,—gardens laid out by foot-rule andcompass, were the order of the day. The natural style came in as a revolt againstthese straight-laced customs. The result, asis usual in such protests, is an extreme on theother side. There is scarcely any art at may be a plot of grass, to be kept short i86 MEEHANS MONTHLY—GENERAL GARDENING. [Dec. bj a lawn-mower, and trees and scat-tered around, as if one had thrown a handfulof stones, and set in a plant on the spots wherethe stones fell. Intelligent people are alreadytiring of this, and on all sides come cries forour grandmothers gardens, with theirneatly-trimmed box-edgings around little plotsin which real flowers grew. These remarks are inspired just now byreading, in the Revue Horticole, an account ofa French gentleman, named Haj^ who has awonderful garden in which the rose pla5S theleading part. Not only all the varieties thatare popular with florists are gathered together. them. B}^ a due introduction of frames,artistically^ arranged as this Frenchman hasarranged his rose frames, pleasure and delightwould be brought in nvimerous wajS, of whichgarden lovers to-daj^ are wholly deprived. No one would desire a return to these oldstyles to the exclusion of natural beauty. Wewould not ask, as a verdant son of theEmerald Isle is reported to have asked, thatif a few quinces made a pear pie taste sogood, how delicious would it not be if thepear pie were made wholh^ of quinces ? Butthere can be no question that a judiciousmixture of both styles would be no disad-vantage to good gar-dening ?
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