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Indeed, as "a Man shall ever see that, when ages grow to 

 Civility and Elegancie, Men come to Build Stately sooner than 

 to Garden l : ithi\', as if Gardening were the greater Perfection," 

 so it may well b^ that, Mr. William Robinson having 

 accomplished his mission, one of the cleverest and keenest 

 of his disciples may have advanced beyond the teacher in the 

 direction of perfection. 



Miss Jekyll, indeed, has not attempted to " build stately," 

 for stateliness would have been out of place with the site at 

 her disposal, but she has certainly given the world an object- 

 lesson in the manner of gardening finely. Climbing the hill 



towards Hascombe, on the way from Godalming, the wayfarer 

 turns aside to the left, by a sandy track of the most unpreten- 

 tious kind, with scrub trees and open land on his left, and a 

 plain oak paling on his right. And then, after a while, he 

 enters a little gate, not wide enough to admit a vehicle, and 

 pursues a simple path, with grass and heather and bushes on 

 either side, leading directly towards a greyish yellow stone 

 wall, which looks as if it had stood for scores of years, 

 although, as a matter of fact, it has stood tut a very few 

 years; and then, turning to his right, he is in the porch, if 

 porch it te. No cottage could have an approach more humble 



THE GARDEN COURT 



