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surprise gardens should be carefully studied. The variety 

 and dignity of these is a great adjunct to garden 

 decoration. 



In an old Elizabethan garden the brick piers that 

 support a handsome wrought-iron gateway are made 

 interesting by having an heraldic device worked into 





FIG. 8. 



them. In one case it is a St. Andrew's Cross (Fig. 8), 

 the pattern of which being shown by leaving out bricks 

 here and there to form the decoration. Upon the summit 

 of the piers are quaint little curved roofs with a small ball 

 upon each, which remind us in shape of the straw garden- 

 hats that are preserved in some old families, and said to 

 have been left as legacies by the maiden queen of 



