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LANDSCAPE GARDEN SERIES 



garden of this sort to the most naturalistic of schemes. A clipped 

 hedge would be admirably suited to a formal scheme and will 

 work in nicely with most informal schemes, but clipped hedges 

 can easily be replaced by natural hedges where they are likely 

 to prove more in tune. And natural hedges can be made rarely 

 beautiful, offering new and changing joys throughout the year, 

 from the varying specimens woven together there. 



Yes, indeed, a walled garden can be made a magic place; 

 and where walls or thick shrubbery are all about us, lo, we find 



Fig. II There are other happy features which have their charm, 

 such as seats here and there along the wall, inviting us to rest, 

 or a pergola set up in some seemly place and vine embowered 



