GARDEN DESIGN 21 



bethan house, free of all moat or 

 trace of war. At one time it was rash 

 to make a garden away from the pro- 

 tecting walls. Now^ any day in a 

 country place beautiful situations may 

 be found for certain kinds of gardens 

 far away from the house, out of sight 

 of it often. 



Again, in the home fighting days 

 there was less art away from the home. 

 Rugged wastes and hills ; vast woodland 

 districts near London ; even small houses 

 moated to keep the cattle from wolves 

 fear of the rough hills and woods ! In 

 those days an extension of the decorative 

 work of the house into the garden had 

 some novelty to carry it off, while the 

 kinds of cultivated trees and shrubs were 

 few. Hence if the old gardeners wanted 

 an evergreen line, hedge, or bush of a 

 certain height, they clipped an ever- 

 green tree into the size they wanted. 

 Notwithstanding this we have no evi- 



