GARDEN DESIGN IN THE NETHERLANDS 



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SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY WALLED GARDEN, WITH TWO CIRCULAR PARTERRES. 



Terraces are not often to be met with in Holland, and it is this which 

 principally gives individuality to the Dutch garden, for nowhere is the 

 country sufficiently hilly to allow of their natural construction. Even in 

 Guelderland and Overyssel, where the ground is partly hilly, the incline 

 are too small to allow 

 of terracing. In- 

 stead we sometimes 

 find an artificial 

 mount placed in a 

 position command- 

 ing a view or as the 

 central feature to a 

 maze. Any want of 

 variety which in other 

 countries would have 

 been overcome by a 

 change in the levels 

 of the garden, was, in 

 Holland, provided by 

 a profusion of flowers 

 that the smallness of 

 the gardens and the an eighteenth-century garden house. 



