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Francis Foster in a charming little book called 

 The Art of Gardenings published in 1 88 i, and in 

 the well-known writings of E. V. B. Until 

 quite recently little attention has been paid to 

 the formal garden.^ The landscape gardener 

 has had it all his own way, so much so that he 

 has ceased to think it necessary to lavish that 

 abuse on the formal school which used to be the 

 regular preface to his dissertations. Some very 

 successful attempts, however, in formal gardens 

 have been made within the last forty years. 

 Arley and Penshurst are well-known instances. 

 The latter was laid out by Lord Delisle, and is 

 perhaps one of the most beautiful gardens in 

 England or anywhere else. Of contemporary 

 designers it would be unbecoming to speak, but 

 the late George Devey and W. Eden-Nesfield 

 ouorht to be mentioned as architects who made a 

 deliberate and very successful effort to design 

 the house and grounds in relation to each other, 

 and this principle, carrying with it the full 

 appreciation of the formal method of gardening, 

 is now generally accepted by those who consider 

 that architecture is a fine art, and not a mere 

 matter of business or building police. 



Looking generally at the history of garden- 

 ing in England, one cannot but admit that the 

 disappearance of formal gardening and the 



^ Since the Hate when this was written (1892) several writers have 

 dealt with gardens, and a valuable series of illustrations, "Gardens Old 

 and New," has been issued by the proprietors of Ccuniry Life. 



