TUDOR GARDENS 



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of such that delight in the sight of it, but is necessary 

 in dry and hot seasons to preserve your choicest plants 

 from injury." 



The principal ideas in this small garden might easily 

 be reproduced and could be simplified by making the 

 fretwork of the beds less elaborate. Although the 

 hedges and borders entail a good deal of labour in 

 trimming, they play quite as important a part as the 

 flowers in producing the general effect. 



One of the last of the Tudor or first of the Eliza- Montacute. 

 bethan gardens is at Montacute. As shown in the 

 plan below, the pleasure grounds are contained in three 

 enclosures. At two corners of the smallest are quaint 

 pavilions called "gazebos." 



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