22 GARDENS IN THE MAKING 



to have a good width to ensure a restful stability to 

 the appearance of the building. 



This level platform is the key to the garden. It 

 can be prolonged either way into a sheltered walk, 

 covered or otherwise, which is thus easily accessible 

 from the house. From it other walks and paths 

 can be traced which shall divide the site into lawns, 

 flower-gardens, terraces, and formal enclosures to a 

 number equal to the fancy and resources of the 

 owner. The ultimate design and situation of these 

 apartments in the fairy palace of the garden will 

 depend on a thousand considerations ; but we must 

 never forget that to ensure privacy and to provide a 

 sustained interest, all the divisions must be self- 

 contained, sheltered, and generally unapproached 

 save by well-planned paths and archways-^for the 

 purpose of revealing their beauties one by one, and 

 reserving the finest views and objects of most 

 delightful interest to be enjoyed severally and at 

 leisure. If the visitor sees everything as he arrives, 

 he may indeed be struck by the great display, but 

 his curiosity is not aroused nor is his imagination 

 stimulated as in those gardens founded on earlier 

 and surer principles, the attractions of which seem 



