306 A IIISTORV OF GARDENING IN ENGLAND. 



an Elizabethan garden in front of an Italian house, or vied 

 versa, and an old-fashioned formal garden would not look well 

 in front of a new looking suburban villa, but no hard and fast 

 rules of style can be laid down, as the selection depends on the 

 architecture, scener\', climate and many other things. 



With the many beautiful gardens which exist throughout 

 England there need be no plea of ignorance. Anyone laying 

 out a garden can see examples of every st3'le. While such 

 places as Knole, Ham, Bromwich, Wrest, Melbourne, Haddon, 

 and Levens, exist, there can be no lack of inspiration. This is 

 an age of progress in Gardening, as in other arts, and if garden 

 -design is carefully studied, and the wealth of hardy as well as 

 tender plants made proper use of, the newest gardens of the 

 nineteenth century might easily surpass anything that has yet 

 been seen in England. 



