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(Plates LV. to LX.) makes a very decided contrast to Eastnor Castle, 

 It is a modern piece of formal gardening carried out in 1902 from 

 the designs of Mr. H. A. Peto, who has done his work with an 

 eminently dainty sense of fitness. What he has evidently aimed 

 at has been delicacy rather than impressiveness, a kind of miniature 

 perfection, in fact. The sunk garden, in which is placed a pond 

 surrounded by a stone balustrade and a paved walk, is a good 

 example of rational formality ; and the pergolas and grass walks 

 elsewhere introduced are planned with excellent discretion. The 

 Japanese garden is a more freakish addition, but it justifies itself 

 by its quaintness, and in its details it shows that the designer has 

 studied Japanese methods with intelligence. There is certainly 

 no reason why the Japanese style of gardening, which can often 

 be employed where limitations of space make a larger manner 

 of treatment practically impossible, should not be considered by 

 designers in this country it is capable of adaptation in many ways, 

 and it represents the conviction of an exceedingly artistic nation. 

 The gardens at Eaton Hall (Plates LXI. to LXIV.) were laid out 

 originally by Capability Brown, but have recently been re-modelled 

 and improved by Mr. Lutyens. They include many representative 

 examples of different types of design. On the south side of the 

 house is an Italian garden, geometrically planned, with a large 

 fountain in the centre and statues at the corners, the whole enclosed 

 by a clipped hedge. On the east side there are terraces and grass 

 slopes with steps leading to a broad walk through a formal garden, 

 more or less Italian in character, with statues and other ornaments. 

 There is, too, a Dutch garden ; and there is much besides which 

 has been carefully planned and judiciously guided in development. 

 The whole place is, naturally, kept in perfect order and has all the 

 better characteristics of the more extensive and elaborate type of 

 pleasure ground. It is, perhaps, a little bewildering in its variety 

 and vastness. The special feature of the garden at Enderby Hall 

 (Plate LXV.) is the extraordinarily elaborate piece of box bedding 

 chosen for illustration. The pattern of this was adapted from a 

 piece of old Italian lace ; and it must be left to gardening experts 

 to decide whether such an attempt to reproduce a design which 

 was never intended for the gardener's use is strictly legitimate. 

 But, anyhow, the result is of much technical interest and counts as 

 a triumph of ingenious pattern-making on an unusually large scale. 

 Guy's Cliff, the famous place in Warwickshire (Plate LXVI.), is a 

 good instance of the way in which a designer can arrive at sound 

 results by studying the character of the ground available. Here he 



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