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THE ENGLISH FLOWER GARDEN. 



begrudge it if it gives a good result, but merely to use the labour of 

 scores of men with shears is to miserably waste both time and money 

 where there is so much of the country to be planted with beautiful 

 trees. Where, as often in the French towns, there is much clipping, 

 the waste of labour is as appalling as the result is hideous. 



THE MAZE is an inheritance from a past time, but not a precious 

 one, being one of the notions about gardening which arose when 

 people had very little idea of the dignity and infinite beauty of the 

 garden flora as we now know it. Some people may be wealthy 

 enough to show us all the beauty of a garden and at the same time 

 such ugly frivolities as this, but they must be few. The maze is not 

 pretty as part of a home landscape or garden, and should be left 

 for the most part to places of the public tea-garden kind. One of its 

 drawbacks is the death and distortion of the evergreens that go to 

 form its close lines, owing to the frequent clipping ; if clipping be 

 neglected the end is still worse, and the whole thing is soon ready 

 for the fire. 



Plan of Ma/e 



