CHAPTER XXII 



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Gardens in a -wood — What trees to exclude — Cedars and Yews 

 — Flowering trees — Choice of situation. 



A GARDEN without trees scarcely deserves to be called 

 a garden, and if I had to build a house for myself, with, 

 of course, a garden attached, I have often thought that 

 it would be very delightful to build the house in an 

 old wood, and gradually form the garden by cutting it 

 out of the wood. Such a thing has often been done. 

 The late Mr. Halliwell-Phillips built what he called a 

 homely wooden Bungalow in Hollingbury Copse, near 

 Brighton, and made a garden in the copse; but how 

 far the garden was a success I do not know. In a 

 wood, at Wisley, near Weybridge, Mr. Wilson has 

 made a wood-garden, which has almost an European 

 reputation ; but it is not a garden, it is still a wood, 

 in which a large number of plants are grown most 

 successfully, and, as it is four miles from the house, it 

 certainly is not a home-garden, and I can only think of 



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