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and thriving, and look quite in keeping with their surroundings. 

 The low bushes in the background are varieties of cistus, all 

 quite at home in the Surrey copse.* There is great scope for wild 

 .gardening on the banks of streams and lakes, and even in the water 

 itself. The new hybrid water lilies raised by Marliac in France, 

 and coming to us from that country, are one of the latest additions 

 to gardens, and in a few years their worth will be recognized.t 

 The numbers of lilies imported from Japan have added yet 

 another feature to nineteenth-century gardens. The varieties of 

 hardy Rhododendrons and Azaleas, collected from East and West, 

 now form so striking a picture in nearly every garden and public 

 park, it is scarcely possible to imagine a time when England was 

 not possessed of these treasures. 



There has been a movement of late years in favour of 

 the formal garden, { and the study of old works on gardens 

 has naturally had a tendency to increase this. In the garden at 

 Ascott, laid out within the last fifteen years, partly in a formal 

 style, there is a remarkable collection of old cut yew and box 

 trees. Some of these were transplanted from neighbouring 

 cottage gardens, but many were brought over from Holland. 

 Other formal gardens have been made in England within this 

 century which are equal in beauty to any older ones. Those of 

 Penshurst in Kent, Arley in Cheshire,, || Blickling in Norfolk, and 

 Montacute in Somerset are well-known instances, all differing in 

 style, and by their beauty bear better testimony to the many 

 advantages of a formal garden than any written arguments 

 could do. The garden has always been considered as, 

 and always must be, an adjunct of the house, and therefore 

 must accord with it, if it is to look well. No one would put 

 an Elizabethan garden in front of an Italian house, or vice 

 versa, and an old-fashioned formal garden would not look well 



* Miss Jekyll's garden, Munstead, Godalming. 



t Nymphea rosea, N. sulphurea, N. odorata, N. Marliacea, and its varieties, 

 rosea, rubra, carnea, &c. 



J The Formal Garden. By Blomfield and Thomas. Garden Craft Old and 

 New. By John Sedding. 



Near Leighton Buzzard, belonging to Leopold Rothschild, Esq. 



|| Belonging to P. Egerton Warburton, Esq. See illustration on page 288. 



