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Monceau, or the many other gardens 

 about Paris in which Grass is an " artistic 

 quantity." One of the most effective 

 reasons indeed for adopting the English 

 landscape garden was that it gave people 

 some fresh and open Grass, often with 

 picturesque surroundings, and, nowa- 

 days, one can hardly travel on the 

 continent 'and not see some pleasant 

 results of this. In England, the land- 

 scape gardeners and writers have almost 

 destroyed every trace of the stiff old 

 formal gardens, and we cannot judge the 

 ill effects of the builder's garden so easily 

 as in France. As a rule, the want of 

 rest and freshness in tropical and sub- 

 tropical gardens is due to the absence of 

 those broad and airy breadths of green- 

 sward which, in gardens at least, are 

 largely due to landscape gardening. 

 Think of Warwick without its turf and 

 glorious untrimmed Cedars ! 



Consider the difference between a 



