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garden."' The formal garden certainly seems to be the most 

 suitable to place near a house, and its design should harmonize 

 with the architecture. This kind of garden is necessary, if any 

 tender plants, or those that require special care and treatment 

 are to be reared, but beyond this formal garden, and separated 

 from it by some suitable enclosure, the wild garden, judiciously 

 planted, proves a continuing source of interest and pleasure. 

 The accompanying illustration of some giant lilies about ten 

 feet high, shows one of the many effects such a " wild garden " 

 can produce. They are planted in a wood, and are spreading 

 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, and the varieties 

 of hardy Rhododendrons and Azaleas are further precious 

 .contributions from that country. 



There has been a movement of late years in favour of 

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

 naturallv has a tendencv to increase this. Some formal gardens 

 have been laid out 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 



* Miss Jekyll's garden, Munstead, Godalming. 



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

 rosea, rubra, carnea, &c. 



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

 New. By John Sedding. 



^ Belonging to P. Rgcrton W'arburton, Esq. See illustration on page 281. 



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