GARDEN ORNAMENTS 



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it in ever-changing delight. Some few gardens lend 

 themselves to such an effect, where the heavy green 

 of a clipped hedge calls for a stone figure to lighten 

 the darkness of a niche cut in it. In this case the statue 

 should be really well carved, and it adds to the interest 

 if a figure emblematic of the surroundings be chosen. 



All gardens, large and small, are helped, however, 

 by the introduction of 

 some tall feature ; and if 

 stonework be out of the 

 question, from the point 

 of view of the cost, or the 

 difficulty in obtaining just 

 the subject that would be 

 suitable to the garden, 

 then it is well to fall back 

 upon a carved wood or 

 treillage standard. Such 

 a feature, as it forms 

 perhaps the centre of a 

 rose-bed, is a means of 

 leading the eye upwards to 

 beauties of colour or form 

 which are above the level 

 of the eye. It can be made of wood, painted a favourite 

 colour, and is fixed firmly by means of a patent in the 

 centre of a flower-bed, and being thus quite immovable is 

 admirably suited to support climbing roses. These are 

 trained outside the standard, and a few shoots can also 

 find room within the treillage work, so that soon the 

 only part that is well seen is the small heraldic device 

 at the top. A group of beds, with one of these in the 

 centre of each and various emblems on them, makes a 

 rather charming garden. 



Where a garden needs less formal treatment, perhaps 



FIG. 107. 



