THE LAY-OUT OF STATELY AND SMALL 

 FORMAL GARDENS 



The Stately Garden 



BEFORE taking any steps to make a Shake- 

 speare garden, it is essential to study the archi- 

 tectural lines of the house and the conforma- 

 tion of the grounds on which it is purposed to lay out 

 the garden, or series of gardens. If the grounds are 

 undulating, or hilly, naturally the gardens must be 

 arrayed on different levels. The gardens can rise 

 above the house in terraces if the house stands on 

 the side of a hill, or beneath it ; or the gardens may 

 sink below the house, if the building crowns the 

 summit of an elevation. On the other hand, if the 

 house is erected on a flat plain, the gardens can 

 open out like a series of rooms partitioned off by 

 hedges, arbors, or walls. An artistic eye and re- 

 sourceful mind will prefer to take advantage of the 

 natural lines and work out a plan suggested by them. 



With nearly every kind of house the square garden 



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