ON GARDENS 43 



in a Garden is arranged, though it may give pleasure 

 to the eye, it will not give charm to the Garden. 

 There still remains in the minds of a few a desire 

 to design the Garden in accordance with the house, 

 and many old Gardens altered in the days of Brown 

 and Repton have been as far as possible restored 

 to their original state. But the mystical charm that 

 hovered in the olden days like a perfumed fragrance 

 over beautiful Gardens, is only to be found in those 

 with a past. For what word conjures up such 

 varied memories, such delights of light and colour, 

 or such fragrant sadness as the word Garden? It 

 fills the mind with visions of the past, joys of people 

 long beyond earth's beauty ; yet the memory of the 

 paths they trod, the scent of the flowers that they 

 loved, the Gardens that they planned, and planted, 

 and made beautiful, do they not remain an ever- 

 lasting heritage? 



