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ENGLISH PLEASURE GARDENS 



The 

 Orchards. 



Miss 



Jekyll's 



garden. 



Requisites 

 for all 

 garden- 



One of the best of the more simply planned gardens 

 is at the Orchards, near Godalming. The fountain, in 

 the centre of the main garden, surrounded by festoons 

 of roses, is good and original in design. Upright posts 

 supporting chains for other garlands add to the composi- 

 tion by furnishing vertical lines, in contrast to the long 

 horizontal contours of the low-lying hills, seen above the 

 wall in the distance. 



Miss Jekyll's garden, also near Godalming, contains 

 the elements of both naturalistic and conventional 

 gardens. The arrangement is 

 very simple, and largely de- 

 pends for its beauty upon vari- 

 ous delightful colour schemes. 

 It is seldom that both wild and 

 cultivated flowers have been 

 grouped more successfully. 



It is impossible to attempt 

 to enumerate all the beauti- 

 ful gardens in various styles, which have been laid out 

 during the last few years. From the largest to the 

 smallest, from the stiffest to the most unconventional, 

 they go to prove that, just as there are beautiful shades 

 of every colour, so any kind of garden may be made 

 beautiful if its construction displays a knowledge of the 

 principles underlying its particular fashion and if it is 

 tended by loving hands. No wild garden can be made 



