io8 GARDENS IN THE MAKING 



beauty, add to their respose, and make an effective 

 contrast with their playful formalism and exactitude. 

 The formal rose beds at Dalingridge (fig. 32) are 

 greatly enhanced by the trees of the wild garden 

 beyond and the azalea hedge to the left. If trees 

 are lacking some other feature — a terrace wall, an 

 orangery, a garden house or dovecot — will perhaps 

 provide the anchorage which is such a grateful 

 element in the design. But no such help is needed 

 where clean and close-cut divisions of yew rise 

 from the perfect level of turf as at Penshurst, form- 

 ing as effective a frame and background as could 

 be desired to the brilliant gaiety of the flowers. 

 Looking out from the windows of those stately 

 galleries we could wish for no other form than 

 that presented with so much skill. The flowers do 

 not lose, but even gain in brilliance, while these 

 geometrical borderings make us remember that 

 they bloom on the estate of an ancient manor, and 

 express the delightful unity and kinship between 

 the old walls and the renewed life of the summer 

 flowers. The function of the formal garden may 

 thus be the most valuable in the whole range of 

 garden-craft. 



