might have been painted at Melbourne. For here are the same wide, 

 green-walled alleys, the pools, the fountains and the ornamental details of 

 the great gardens of courtly France of two hundred years ago acclimatised 

 on English soil ; not in the dreary vastness of Versailles, but tamed to 

 our climate's needs and on a scale attuned to the more moderate dimen- 

 sions of a reasonable human dwelling. 



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