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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1902 edition. Excerpt: ... The Garden and the Flower In offering practical advice to owners of villa gardens, I have endeavoured to demonstrate the value of a well-considered plan to start with, as an aid to realising a consistent and artistic effect in the garden; and incidentally I have made it apparent that I consider the garden, before all things, as a home for the flower; wherefore I must insist that the garden, in plan and detail, should stand in relation to the flower, as the house to its inmates, a relation that is best described as subordinate. To overdo the plan and to over-elaborate the accessories, is to detract from the flower. The artistic garden is the one in which the flower has full scope to grow in all its beauty, without having to compete with paint and tawdry ornament. In fact the flower must be a complete autocrat if the full purpose of the garden is to be realised, and who could wish for a more charming despot. Why then seek to make it conform to the exact limits of your geometrical beds; or ignoring its character and inherent beauty, treat it as so much pigment with which to fill in the formal outlines of your fanciful incisions in the turf? It deserves better of you. Apart from the natural loveliness of its blossoms, the flower has individual characteristics of foliage and habit, which are as admirable as the more conspicuous one of colour. Therefore give your plants, shrubs and trees elbow-room to develop unhindered, and the result will amply repay you. I am sometimes taunted with having an untidy garden, because I have had the courage to put my precepts into practice. Untidy--because I suffer a clump of Mignonette to intrude upon a path and soften its rigid outline, or allow a spray of Nasturtium to wander over its neighbour, a sturdy Starwort, ..

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