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three together in modulated groups. Do not try 

 to out-nature Nature, however, by building up a 

 diversified landscape on your two or three acre 

 demesne, after the manner of the late lamented 

 school of landscape gardeners, for artificial moun- 

 tains, valleys, cliffs, cascades and gorges only look 

 well in menageries when inhabited by wild beasts; 

 such efforts fail utterly to either beautify or im- 

 prove. On a small estate the more harmony that 

 exists between the house and garden, the more 

 one fits imperceptibly into the other, the more 

 one seems absolutely necessary to the other, just 

 so much more success you may be sure you have 

 achieved. Harmony is the keynote that should 

 forever be ringing in your ears. 



Sunken gardens, deliberately sunken ones, that 

 is to say deep pits dug in level ground and not 

 depending upon any natural features of the land 

 for their sunken condition or appearance are quite 

 meaningless, except perhaps in a large park or 

 system of gardens where they might find a place 

 as examples of a type. They are conspicuous on 

 account of their freakishness, which is a charac- 

 teristic that should be avoided in small gardens. 



