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the prevailing fashion was fostered in the gardens of the British merchants 

 of Gothenburg in Sweden, and Christiania and Trondhjem in Norway. 



In Switzerland, where Nature has been prodigal in her gifts of 

 landscape beauty, the English style was in more appropriate surroundings. 

 *' Almost all the gardens," writes Hirschfeld, " are theatres of true beauty 

 without vain ornaments or artificial decorations." He mentions several 

 gardens near Geneva and Lausanne. Les Delices is chiefly remarkable 

 because it was inhabited by Voltaire, and La Grange and La Boissier were 

 other well-known gardens of the late eighteenth century. 



Happily during the last quarter of a century a revival of the best tra- 

 ditions of the formal garden has taken place, and as throughout the 

 Renaissance period architects were invariably employed to plan the garden 

 settings of the houses they built, so it is gratifying to note that this practice 

 is once more becoming usual in England and America. There can be no 

 doubt that the work is quite within their province, and that a much more 

 pleasing and harmonious result is likely to be attained when the main lines 

 of a garden are set out by those who have designed the building and who, 

 owing to their training, should have a keen sense of proportion and beauty. 



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