s of this kind; but these varieties are rejected as vulgar by
those people who are better able to pay for expensive flowers and who
are educated to a higher schedule of pecuniary beauty in the florist's
products; while still other flowers, of no greater intrinsic beauty than
these, are cultivated at great cost and call out much admiration from
flower-lovers whose tastes have been matured under the critical guidance
of a polite environment.

The same variation in matters of taste, from one class of society to
another, is visible also as regards many other kinds of consumable
goods, as, for example, is the case with furniture, houses, parks,
and gardens. This diversity of views as to what is beautiful in these
various classes of goods is not a diversity of the norm according to
which the unsophisticated sense of the beautiful works. It is not a
constitutional difference of endowments in the aesthetic respect, but
rather a difference in the code of reputability which specifies what
objects properly lie within the scope of honorific consumption for the
class to which the critic belongs. It is a difference in the traditions
of propriety with respect to the kinds of things which may, without
derogation to the consumer, be consumed under the head of objects of
taste and art. With a certain allowance for variations to be accounted
for on other grounds, these traditions are determined, more or less
rigidly, by the pecuniary plane of life of the class.

Everyday life affords many curious illustrations of the way in which the
code of pecuniary beauty in articles of use varies from class to class,
as well as of the way in which the conventional sense of beauty departs
in its deliverances from the sense untutored by the requirements of
pecuniary repute. Such a fact is the lawn, or the close-cropped yard or
park, which appeals so unaffectedly to the taste of the Western peoples.
It appears especially to appeal to the tastes of the well-to-do classes
in those communities in which the dolicho-blond element predominates
in an appreciable degree. The lawn unquestionably has an element of
sensuous beauty, simply as an object of apperception, and as such no
doubt it appeals pretty directly to the eye of nearly all races and all
classes; but it is, perhaps, more unquestionably beautiful to the eye
of the dolicho-blond than to most other varieties of men. This higher
appreciation of a stretch of greensward in this ethnic element than
in the