6 GARDENS : THEIR FORM AND DESIGN 



England we can plant ampelopsis or other creepers, and 

 carry these from the rose-trees or the shrubs we may 

 prefer to have in the place of apple-trees. These garlands 

 can be led in any direction, and are fastened to willow- 

 boughs, and trained upon them in any shape or fancy 

 that is required. 



Another good way of making innumerable frames to 

 pretty garden-pictures is to have an avenue or a single 

 row of lime-trees, and so train their branches as to form 





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oblong or oval openings, through which brightly coloured 

 herbaceous plants are seen. 



In forming any kind of approach to an important feature 

 such as a house, although a very circuitous road is to be 

 avoided, it is necessary to follow, if possible, the outline 

 of a hill-side, should one be near. A straight avenue, 

 without a bend in it, would probably be out of keeping 

 with the rounded lines of the hill. There is a garden in 

 the Midlands of England where an avenue of tall Cupressus 

 macrocarpa lutea has been planted to lead with a semi- 

 circular bend to a shadow-house beneath the hill. It 

 probably was copied from a similar one in Italy, for the 

 proportion of the width of the road has been considered 



