

CHAPTER VII 



FISH-PONDS, PLEACHING, ARBOURS, 

 GALLERIES, HEDGES, PALISADES, GROVES 



The double purpose of a garden — for use and 

 pleasure — has been forgotten in landscape 

 gardening. You either get a kitchen garden 

 useful but ugly, or a pleasure garden not useful, 

 and only redeemed from ugliness by the flowers 

 themselves. The charm of the older garden is 

 in the combination of the two, or rather the 

 way in which grounds and water laid out, not 

 solely for their beauty, were made beautiful by 

 their reasonable order. The old fish-pond with 

 its regular grass banks is a 'charming thing in 

 itself, yet this was at first as much a matter of 

 necessity as the poultry-house or the dove-cote. 

 Here lived the lazy carp, the pike, the perch, 

 the bream, the tench, and other fish that might 



