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GARDEN CRAFT IN EUROPE 



circular Temple of ^olus is one of the most pleasing buildings of its kind 

 that has been seen. 



Although during the greater part of the eighteenth century the landscape 

 style reigned supreme, in the remoter parts of the country the less pretentious 

 gardens of the middle classes still adhered to the best principles of the formal 

 school. During the nineteenth century, the introduction of many new plants 



and improved methods of .culti- 

 vation and the more extended 

 use of hothouse and con- 

 servatory have brought about 

 many changes. In the early 

 part of the century landscape 

 •gardening was all the fashion, 

 but towards the middle of 

 the century, with a revival of 

 Italian architecture, an at- 

 tempt was made to introduce 

 the Italian garden. Several 

 large schemes were designed 

 by Sir Charles Barry, amongst 

 which are the gardens of 

 Trentham and Shrublands. 

 The practice of bedding-out 

 plants came into vogue, and 

 instead of the glorious bor- 

 ders of old-fashioned peren- 

 nials which for years had 

 been the pride of English 

 gardens, we were asked to 

 admire rows of blue lobelia 

 planted in front of scarlet geraniums against a gorgeous background of yellow 

 calceolaria. 



The taste for landscape gardening quickly spread all over the Continent, 

 and after the peace of 1762 the Jardin a ranglaise became all the fashion 

 in France. It seems strange indeed that, with the great examples of garden 

 design that then existed, the French should have been content to follow the 



A CHINESE PAVILION AT KEW. 



