PAVED GARDENS 



THE man or the woman who possesses a gift for 

 creating beautiful daydream gardens is to be envied. 

 It is a joy that never fails. Maybe the possessor 

 of it does not own a garden, or if he does it is so small 

 that none of the weavings of imagination can take shape 

 in it. Yet wherever the dreamer goes he will be happy. 

 If he is not actually building castles in the air, he will be 

 noting certain colour-combinations, effects of light and 

 shade, happy homes for flowers, shape and line in archi- 

 tecture or in natural hills and dales, which may some day 

 be adapted to his friend's garden, if not to his own. 



Thus a walk through narrow overshadowed streets of 

 a foreign town, a glimpse through a " porte cochere " into 

 a small paved court, bright with big terra-cotta vases and 

 golden oranges hanging from the trees they hold, will 

 send him home thinking how such an effect can be had 

 in his own country. Most certainly the cottage gardens 

 of England will give ideas in plenty, and so will hedgerows, 

 woods, and commons ; for, when all the books of the 

 craft have been read and studied, it is Nature that is the 

 true and only teacher. 



A chance lesson about paved gardens is to be learnt 

 from an old almshouse garden near Horsham. It bears 

 the charming name of " Normandy." Formerly each 



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