CHAPTER XIII 



FILLING IN WITH COLOURS 



HE gardens of Eng- 

 land, from which 

 the Colonial gar- 

 dens of America 

 drew their inspiration and 

 character, were evolved 

 gradually and not copied 

 from any particular pattern or dominated 

 by any well defined school. Those that 

 were made in the seventeenth century 

 embodied the principal features of Eng- 

 lish mediaeval gardens, although the em- 

 bellishments of statues and figures were 

 borrowed from Italy. The traditions of 

 garden making were indigenous to the 

 island and the florid Italian style was only 

 a passing influence. The Renaissance 

 gardens of Italy were closely copied from 



the descriptions of the ancient writers, 

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