The Beautiful Flower Garden: Its Treatment With Special Regard for the Picturesque; Written and Embellished With Numerous Illustrations by F. Schuyler ... on Practical Floriculture (Classic Reprint)
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Author(s)A. H. Fewkes
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Excerpt from The Beautiful Flower Garden: Its Treatment With Special Regard for the Picturesque; Written and Embellished With Numerous Illustrations by F. Schuyler Mathews; With Notes on Practical Floriculture
We all love flowers, and are ever searching for more knowledge regarding their peculiar characteristics and dainty habits; we do not need to be convinced of their beauty; on that point our knowledge is complete. That flower gardens, therefore, arc beautiful, goes without saying; yet there are some which certainly are not quite as lovely as we think they ought to be. Let us pass the reason why, and proceed to learn about those things which contribute toward the loveliness of an ideal garden.
The chief beauty of the garden should lie in its flower colors and plant forms, and not in the symmetry of its beds and borders. If our ideas of a perfect garden include any rigid geometrical principles, we would better study Nature and let all ideals go! Our ideals, at best, are extremely limited, while Nature's realism is immeasurable; she puts so much variety into her reality that she is more beautiful than we can imagine by sheer force of quantity! Ten days for an artist in a mountain valley will give him ten views from the same point which will be entirely different each day. Yet one is apt to imagine a view always the same as he happened to have seen it on one particular occasion. After a ten days' acquaintance with Shirley poppies or El Dorado marigolds, the poppies and marigolds of our imagination dwindle into insignificance!
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We all love flowers, and are ever searching for more knowledge regarding their peculiar characteristics and dainty habits; we do not need to be convinced of their beauty; on that point our knowledge is complete. That flower gardens, therefore, arc beautiful, goes without saying; yet there are some which certainly are not quite as lovely as we think they ought to be. Let us pass the reason why, and proceed to learn about those things which contribute toward the loveliness of an ideal garden.
The chief beauty of the garden should lie in its flower colors and plant forms, and not in the symmetry of its beds and borders. If our ideas of a perfect garden include any rigid geometrical principles, we would better study Nature and let all ideals go! Our ideals, at best, are extremely limited, while Nature's realism is immeasurable; she puts so much variety into her reality that she is more beautiful than we can imagine by sheer force of quantity! Ten days for an artist in a mountain valley will give him ten views from the same point which will be entirely different each day. Yet one is apt to imagine a view always the same as he happened to have seen it on one particular occasion. After a ten days' acquaintance with Shirley poppies or El Dorado marigolds, the poppies and marigolds of our imagination dwindle into insignificance!
About the Publisher
Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
