XI 

 SOME SPECIAL GARDENS 



The Kitchen Garden 



THE kitchen garden is the one enclosure which 

 has retained a large part of its ancient for- 

 mality, in spite of opposite tendencies in the 

 recent fashions of flower borders and lawns. Here, 

 where utility bears undisputed sway, the old-time 

 beauty has sheltered under her wing, and has laughed 

 securely since no one thought the homely and 

 serviceable lines of the kitchen garden were worthy 

 of the -attentions of the landscape gardener. Thus 

 we have come to know, and feel an affection for, the 

 high walls round a plot four square, the long 

 straight paths dividing up the area into rectangular 

 divisions, and the borders of flowers, the intrusion of 

 which is never forbidden or regretted. 



The contrast, then, which of late existed between 



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