PLACING OF THE GARDEN 



among which gay gold fish appear to play a game 

 of tag. 



A Salem garden, well over a hundred years old, 

 has, as can be seen in plate xxxiv., its boundaries well 

 defined by box. The entrance into it is made by means 

 of an arched gateway. In fact, the act of passing into 

 a garden through a gate has a pleasant moral effect. 

 It seems when the gate is opened as if one had at last 

 reached the desired destination; and when the click 

 of the gate is heard, the outside world seems to be left 

 behind. Only the garden then lies before one, in all 

 its sweetness and beauty. 



Few modern gardens are entered by a gate, although 

 they are often led into by an arch. 



I noticed that one seaside garden, generally admired 

 by passing visitors, is walled all the way around by a 

 high hedge of California privet, through which a number 

 of arches clipped from the hedge proper indicate the 

 way of entrance. Once within this garden, the impres- 

 sion produced by passing through an arch is prolonged 

 by others of light and graceful build standing at inter- 

 vals along the paths and at several of the cross-sections. 

 They are all covered with crimson rambler rose vines, 

 which in their season of bloom glorify all the surround- 

 ings. This garden, nevertheless, appeared to me as 

 one vast planting ground. I walked through it as 

 through a nursery. In vain I searched for a seat, 

 and when reluctantly I sank on a bit of turf, I felt 

 that there was altogether too little turf and too many 

 flowers. As a rule the grass plots of a garden should 

 predominate. 



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