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with a view to good effect when the trees should reach 

 their full height (Fig. 3), and, now that they are tall, 

 the whole is upon a magnificent scale. 



One of the most interesting points in garden design is 

 the way in which the same tree or plant, treated differ- 

 ently, will completely alter the picture we paint. In 

 Italy cypress-trees are not always allowed to soar to their 

 full height. In a garden just outside Siena is a straight 

 avenue, very formal in style, where these trees are planted 

 at intervals amidst a hedge of yew and other green bushes ; 

 but they are cut to the shape shown (Fig. 4). Although 



FIG. 4. 



it may be considered by some very barbarous to have 

 destroyed their natural growth, the style suits the villa 

 to which they lead, and in between each dark-green 

 square we get wonderful distant views over that great 

 fruitful and luxuriant country, the dark foliage of the 

 trees in the foreground making the hills upon the skyline 

 look even farther from us than they would otherwise 

 appear. 



For a humble entrance to a small house it is fresh and 

 delicious to have a bank of roses, such as Madame Abel 

 Chatenay, upon either side of a walk, and behind them 

 tall bushes of syringa which guide the eye to the house at 

 the end. This should, perhaps, be for one of the garden- 

 entrances, not for the main approach, because it is 



