THE GARDEN AND ITS ACCESSORIES 



seashore location ; yet how unlike the 

 other is the setting of either. However, 

 they both have the same common pur- 

 pose : seclusion and the shutting out of 

 obnoxious features. In both these cases 

 the surrounding landscape plays a small 

 part in making the garden picture. The 

 garden becomes a little world by itself, and 

 it does not want the co-operation of any- 

 thing outside. 



An enclosure for a seashore garden is 

 shown on page 193. It is made of white 

 cedar with the bark left on, and is quite 

 rustic although built after a fixed design. 

 Rustic work can be made very attractive 

 for unpretentious little country gardens if 

 only it is put together with some knowl- 

 edge of what is good design and what is 

 bad. But the general run of this work 

 looks as though the person that made 

 it tried to see how queer it could be 

 done by throwing it together in natural 

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