1 86 GARDENS IN THE MAKING 



thus introduces an important feature into the design. 

 Alone, in series, or in quantity, it is an instrument 

 which cannot be disregarded, but used with care and 

 tastefully filled it will bring to the garden an amazing 

 amount of joy and gaiety. 



Sundials 



The sundial, the most popular of garden orna- 

 ments, is in danger of becoming too frequent a feature, 

 and of losing its own poetic character in a display of 

 affectation of which it is sometimes the sign. We 

 are well aware that to a number of people, yet 

 unconvinced that "landscape" gardening is not the 

 most fitting method of laying out our grounds, 

 the whole teaching of formal gardening appears a 

 transient pose and mere affectation. We have, 

 however, tried to show that this teaching rests on 

 sure foundations, and that architectural principles and 

 garden design must go together if we are to get re- 

 sults at all befitting the beauty and importance of the 

 subject. It is therefore our aim, while encouraging the 

 fullest expression of the artist's invention and fancy, 

 — as long as it yields to the discipline of the simple 

 rules of the art, — to avoid the inclusion of features 



