ORNAMENTAL POTS 



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FIG. 50. 



handsome, planted in terra-cotta pots, and placed where 

 behind them a dark yew-hedge shows off the delicacy of 

 the flower spikes. 



Fig. 49 is suitable for a parterre garden, and large 

 pots with clipped Portugal laurels, placed in the circles, 

 give height and remind us of the fine ones at Versailles. 



Another design, though less simple, and with a touch 

 of French influence, is Fig. 50. Again, the trees in pots 

 that outline the 

 walks lend height 

 and interest to the 

 garden. It was not 

 only in French and 

 Italian gardens that 

 ornamental pots 

 were used. In an 

 old book which 

 gives pictures of 

 Nuremberg gardens, we find a very charming one that 

 belonged to Johan Christoph Golkainer. His was prob- 

 ably a reserve garden, or, at all events, the long narrow 

 beds, with neat box-edging round each, could be utilized 

 for cut flowers. A four -feet -high hedge protects this 

 ground from too much wind ; but, to relieve the 

 monotony, at intervals the hedge gives place to a tub 

 or ornamental pot, with a clipped tree growing in it. 



We have not yet touched sufficiently upon the true 

 Italian flower-pot garden. By this we mean a garden 

 where flower-borders are given more height and grace by 

 having handsome orange-pots stood upon pedestals in the 

 midst of the flowers. We seldom see this done in 

 England, but it is so beautiful in effect, and gives such 

 magic and height to a garden that we hope it may soon 

 be introduced as a recognized style. Perhaps garden- 

 lovers have been held back hitherto by the difficulty of 



