The Beautiful Flower Garden, Its Treatment With Special Regard for the Picturesque: With Notes on Practical Floriculture (Classic Reprint)

That flower gardens, therefore, are beautiful, goes without saying; yet there are some which certainly are not quite as lovely as we think they oiight 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 srealism 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.
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