18 THE FLOWER GARDEN. 



match. Generally, however, the scissors and the 

 yew-tree make up the main " furniture " of the 

 garden; and there is something so venerable, and 

 even classical,* about cones and pyramids, and pea- 

 cocks of box and yew, that we should be loth to 

 destroy a single specimen of the topiary art that 

 was not in flagrant disconnection with the scene 

 around it. 



However, the most striking and indispensable 

 feature of a private garden in the Dutch style is the 

 " lust-huis," or pleasure-house, hundreds of which 

 overlook every public road and canal in Holland. 

 Perched on the angle of the high wall of the en- 

 closure, or flanking or bestriding the stagnant canal- 

 ulet which bounds the garden, in all the gaiety and 

 cleanliness of fresh paint, these little rooms form the 

 resort, in summer and autumn evenings, of the 

 owners and their families, who, according to sex and 

 age, indulge themselves with pipes and beer, tea 

 and gossip, or in observing the passengers along the 

 high road, -while these, in their turn, are amused 

 with the amiable and pithy mottoes on the pavilions, 

 which set forth the " Pleasure and Ease," " Friend- 

 ship and Sociability," &c. &c., of the family-party 

 within. 



We have thought it necessary to give a slight 

 sketch of the principal continental styles, before we 

 entered upon the consideration of that which is 

 universally recognised as appropriate to the English 

 garden. In a former number of our Review a his- 



* See Pliny and Martial we may say passim. 



