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All) the many controversies which tune .ITIM-II m : 

 to the vh.ir.uu-r ot gardens, n one has ever been 

 found t-> doubt that the\ should possess a definite 

 relation t-> tin- houses they .id>rn. There h.i\e been 

 different views as to what that relation should be. 

 Some have demanded harmony, others contrast. Thert 

 tin is*- who look upon gardening as merely a for in "I ar.lntvture, 

 maintaining th.it .1 -.irJen is really the extension ol the lic.uv 

 into its surruundin^N, and we may say that they enter the 

 pleasaunii- of their ihone from within i>utw.trd>. Another 

 school of ^ardeneis. on the other hand, has vonsidered 

 the approdvh ot wild N.iture, subjevtel and 

 Jied. to the dwelling-place, and these enter their pleasure 

 ground, as it were, irom without inwards. There have tx-en 

 exaggerations on both sides. The architect has sometimes 

 tended to j tiMisfM-re formality ; the landscape gardener has 

 often broken down the barriers of UK- quaint and homelike, 



the M.iuK .ind the dignilii-d, to make : some tame 



suhNtitute, or N.IIIR- t-xti.u .i-.int (utility. A quaint idea, 

 expressed In ..LI Sir Uvedl I' C, whkh had s.iini-thing of 

 rc.ison in it, was that tlu-re should Iv a progressive hreaking 



cr style formality near the house, landtcape duracter beyond, 



and UK- native wild mitsule. 



But amid the war ot i-milivtui^ s,.hiH.|s, the hro.i.l t.ut 

 tem.iins that the h->u>e and the garden are one. It was not 

 until the friends ot Mr. Justuv Shallow had entered Ins 

 tiloucestershire garden and or.. hard, there, in an .irNiur, 

 t" partake ot a last year's pippin ot Ins ..wn "grafting." 

 with a dish ot t.iirawa\s, that I .iSt.itt voiild declare the 

 i.i\.ilieio-justice and I'-MIII to p.,ss,-ss .1 -.">.l|y dwelling, 

 and a rich." Here, manifestly, Shakespeare recogmsrd tin- 

 right relation between the house and its garden, and, indeed, 

 though one should be lair .is C.nnelot and the other -.i\ .is 

 ArimdaS, each would be a marred creation without the other 





THE SI MMBk-HOLSE IV THE yl AD OAkDEN, KELLY HOUSE. TAVISTOUC. 





