European and Japanese Gardens 



the view looking down. All the features we have considered 

 may be worked out on a groundwork of terraces, and their 

 possibilities as well as their charms, are endless. Sedding 

 well said that howe\'er much we were refined and cultivated 

 there was always an underlying sa\'agery which at times 

 demanded satisfaction. One must tire of the sure mark of 

 man's hand, and long for nature unrestrained : the wide sea- 

 board and the rude forest. So one finds in almost every Eng- 

 lish place of any size some wilderness, some copse, or combe, 

 which shall be left free and wild, or at the least a reminder of 

 nature quite free. But the transition from the cultivated aspect 

 of nature to its wilder form must be gradual ; one does not 

 want to open the garden-gate in the wall and be in the forest. 

 Between the two, one finds the pasture-lands, rolling, sheep- 

 cropped fields, bordered not with the masonry wall or the 

 clipped hedge, but with the wild hedgerow% thick with thorn 

 and holly and punctuated with the upstanding elms. From the 

 pastures to the copse and the woodland the transition is easy. 



