GARDENS OF MANY KINDS 7 



surrounding flower beds are set in the turf. There 

 is a good garden suggestion, too, in the "Isle of 

 Love" at Chantilly; this for a short vista of flowers 

 and water. Another, for box-lined parterres, will 

 be found in the garden of the Grand Trianon, 

 at Versailles, and still another, for a paved court, 

 in the Orangery at the same place. 



The English garden, when highly formal, is 

 very apt to show traces of Italian or French in- 

 fluence. In its less grand estate it possesses a 

 charm that neither of the others has a certain 

 atmosphere of the home. Beauty it has, often of 

 an exquisitely reposeful sort that is lacking in Italy 

 and France ; but there is the feeling that the beauty 

 is not so much for art as to live with and love by 

 personal association. To bind it still more closely 

 to the home, the bowling green, the tennis court 

 or croquet ground may be made part of it, and it 

 is a common practice to enclose it with a wall or 

 clipped hedges to insure seclusion. 



Where foreign copying is to be done, it is to 

 English gardens that the American would better 

 look in most cases; if he is able to appropriate their 

 homely air, their restfulness and their seclusion 

 he need not mind if his work is not scholastic. 



Atmosphere rather than design being the dis- 

 tinguishing feature, the best way to make an Eng- 

 lish garden is to enclose preferably with a wall 

 of stone or brick a plot laid out in a formal pat- 

 tern. Whether the plot is exactly square is im- 

 material. 



