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GARDENS OLD AND NEW. 



being thrown up in haphazard hanks and mounds on 

 either side and a very considerable effect of depth 

 thus given to the artificial hollow. This hollow has 

 been made to resemble the natural valley which it 

 joins and forms part of, while occasional rocks 

 cropping up amid junipers and heaths complete a 

 very agreeable stretch of wild gardening. The 

 hollow eventually reaches some old fish-ponds, into 

 one of which has been built on piles the charming 

 Japanese tea-house of our picture, while on the pond 

 margins are grouped a wise selection of water-loving 



plants. About seventy Salvation Army waifs were 

 employed, in addition to the available local labour, to 

 do the mechanical part of these immense movements 

 of earth, while the rapid and luxuriant growth 

 revealed by our excellent series of views shows with 

 what skill the more scientific and professional part of 

 the gardening work was carried out. Moreover, 

 Mr. Peto collected the many antique vases, urns, 

 columns and statues which lend such point and 

 distinction to this well-imagined and wholly-successful 

 example of modern garden-making. 



THE DAIRY GARDEN. 



