Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1890-06-12

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A most charming essay on gardens
graces the North American Review for
Jspe. fspa tie pen OF ..Ouida = and A.
thpugh we have seldom read her some
vhnssBaaational and overwrought stud
iAsfn Askion, she Il certainly denyAt1al
II this abort, pleasant little essayen
gssdening.
Whoeves has garden has one cham
Der rooted by Heaven in which the poet
and philosopher can feel at home; and
while ii Is given the few only TO possess
stately and beautiful gardens, Of any
small garden . certain little kingdom
may be made be il only green enough
and well removed from city noise. The
great beauty Of Rome was its gardens
and it il the little hooks and corners Of
gardens which give 90 much OF lis joyous
and glad aspect to the whole Of Paris 1t
Is their gardens which make the ancient
cities and'towns Of Belgium SO full Of re-
pose, Of friendiiness, of the calm Of nature
and the romance Of history. Public
gardens Ike public parks may be beauti-
full, useful, health giving. pleasure-giv-
ing, but Sill they must ever be public
gardens. Ii is the private gardens, the
green places dedicated to thought and
to affection. which alone are loveable,
and which Alone make home possible,
even amid the network OF crowded streets.
A public garden IL valuable pleasure
ground for city, but L. no more garden
''roofed by Heaven, than life at hotel
is home.
ouida makes strong plea for the old
fashioned garden and lis Old fashioned
"posies,' the posaes OF Shakespeare,
Milton and Ben Jonson. She has little
patience with the elaboraseiy-patterned
beds, the dazzling assorted coiors, the
formal mosaic OF lines In which the mod
ern landscape gardener revels. All the
sweet-smeiiing and what are now called
"oid iasnioned MOWERS are hustled out
OF the way by the bedding out system
and the present rage for geometricai ar
rangement and ribbon effects. IL Is
mistake. On, Tor the Old fashioned
gardens, OF musk-piant, clover pink,
southernwood, sweet briar, lavender,
lemon thyme, moss-rose and mignonet,e.
A love for flowers Indicates the quick
ness OF Imagination and the delicacy OF
sentiment OF those In whom It Is strong.
MED by feeling for all other kinds OF
natural beauty and woodland lie.
Every child who Is led TO feel the love-
hness OF the water-iily lying on TIE
green pond-water, or OF the wild
hyacinth growing IN the home'wood
grasses, WILL as ne grows up. lena MS
influence ana ms example TO the preser-
vation OF all rural ana sylvan ioVeiiness.
botany may De well IN IT'S way, Dut
ineomparably better is the practical
knowledge OF now TO make Mowers
grow, and inhniteiy better sui Is the
tenderness which turns ASIDE not 10
tread on the wiio mowers IN the neid
nor 10 heediessiy disturb the Orioles
nest IN the piossomihg syringa. vi al
emotions winch the nature capable OF IT,
the purest ana iongest-hVed pleasure,
the snare OF 'he beauty Oh NATURAL
thihss Is lhe one winch COSTS ieas' pam
III its Indulgence, ana most reilnes ana
eleSates the character. Inc garden the
orehara' the wood' 'he hieado" are the
schoois III WHICH THIS appfeciatiVe Iaeui'
W Is cultured most easily anu ehJoyapiy'
Nearly all cmldren take instructive de-