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GARDENS OLD AND NEW. 



THE GARDEN PAVILION. 



" Country Life." 



garden, that the spices of it may flow out.' This you would 

 think a great tiling " Many a time mi^ht these words be 

 quoted by the garden-lover. Without pursuing Ruskin's 

 magic words to tlieir deep human significance, we may say 

 that they have an objective truth also that they imply the 

 effect of the love of a garden upon its outcome, as the caiis.i 

 caucus of its perfection. Such, we think, must have been 

 and, indeed, manifestly has been the origin of the perfection 

 of the gardens at the Old Place, which, to paraphrase the 

 words of William Morris, in his " Hopes and Fears for Art," 

 are both orderly and rich, well-fenced from the outside world, 

 stored with fl >ral charms, but not with the " mighty strong 

 colour" of glowing masses, and yet not imitating either the 

 \\jliulnejS or wildr.ess of Nature. 



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Illli PLEACHED WALK. 



Then, again, we must notice the pleached avenue of the 

 stately limes that margin and adorn the straight path to the 

 interesting church, with ever a view as we proceed of 

 architecture and garden combined that would be hard to 

 excel. Yews of many shapes and kinds are here to 

 invest the place with the solemn character that they 

 alone can impart a solemnity that wins us to sweet 

 garden melancholy, as it were, irradiated with a beauty 

 and a joy that otherwise we might never experience 

 in our pleasaunces. Tlu tall-growing lilies and irises, the 

 branching roses, and all the sweet galaxy of the garden, 

 find their foil and contrast in the lines of these deep 

 hedges and of the sentinel yews that neighbour them. 

 Thus is the character of enclosure given to the garden, 



but of enclosure brightened 

 by open lawns like velvet to 

 the tread, and by many a 

 distant view of the hills and 

 meadows of that delightful 

 Sussex land. Therefore is the 

 Old Place at Lindfield a most 

 artistic and interesting abode. 

 To create, or re-create, 

 such a place as this is a very 

 notable thing, and to make- 

 all harmonious in house and 

 garden is an artistic triumph. 

 Here we have an admirable 

 exemplar of what it is within 

 the compass, not, indeed, of 

 many, to accomplish, but of 

 a favoured few. These will 

 find both suggestion and 

 encouragement in our pictures. 

 Simplicity, quaintness, and 

 occasional elaboration will be 

 noticed, and no more than 

 this happy association, in the 

 adornment of the garden with 

 foliage and flowers, is needed 

 to produce a charm which all 

 may admire. 



