Excerpt from The Garden Beautiful: Home Woods and Home Landscape
This book is for the country house, or any place where there is woodland, or land to plant; its object is to get people, after thought of the needs of a true garden, to think more of their woods from aesthetic and other points of view. Its aim is to teach the best of all lessons for garden-lovers - too often absorbed in the exotic, the curious, and the tender - that our own country's trees are the most beautiful we shall ever have, and our native flowers as fair as any. I do not mean any extension of the pleasure-ground, so often a poor 'sticky' thing, little better than the stereo typed flower-garden, but the real woodland. Small gardens are often the most beautiful and the best for the happiness of their owners; but we have to think of the many who have greater opportunities, too seldom embraced - woodlands that are not brought into any happy relation with the house and are often not accessible from it. In the district in which I live there are hundreds of acres of beautiful woods never seen by any but the gamekeeper, woods sheeted with Kingcups, Primroses, and Wood Hyacinths, more beautiful in their effect than any garden.
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