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really returned that we shall get back to the peculiar 

 charm of the seventeenth and eighteenth century 

 garden. The art of the past lapsed into artificiality 

 and then passed away, and now we have to regret 

 that we impatiently discarded too much of the old 

 spirit, and lost the good with the bad. 



Greenhouses and Orangeries 



The rival aesthetic schools which counsel us on 

 the one hand to hide all useful things where 

 "appearances" count, and on the other to 

 expose them on the assumption that real useful- 

 ness connotes beauty, need not seriously trouble 

 us. To the plain man there are many things 

 of utility which are not easily brought into 

 harmony with his ideas of what is. lovely to look 

 upon, and yet to the artist the ugly and useful 

 thing tempts him to try and fashion it anew. 

 The problem is no small one at times, and it is 

 certainly not an easy one in the case of hothouses, 

 where the expanse of glass rebels against any 

 attempt to coax it into line with the architecture of 

 either house or garden. 



In large grounds there will be ample space for 



