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GARDEN CRAFT IN EUROPE 



combined English, French and Chinese garden. The garden was designed for 

 the Venetian Ambassador, and its description is worth transcribing to show 

 the wild excesses to which a French gardener could run. Like the Chinese 

 gardens, its perfection was to consist in the number and diversity of its scenes, 

 and in the artful combination of their parts, planned to suit every mood of 

 the owner. Arriving by the grand avenue we find the chateau placed in 



the midst of the gardens, which 

 are laid out regularly upon the side 

 of approach, with a path leading 

 to the Hameau, and a tiny Gothic 

 ruined chapel and group of cot- 

 tages, each with its separate 

 garden, a pyramid overlooking a 

 pond, a fishing lodge, dairy and 

 sheep-fold. Hard by is an Italian 

 vineyard, overlooked by a Temple 

 appropriately dedicated to Bac- 

 chus ; as a great contrast the 

 visitor passed from this joyous 

 spot to one more serious, "The 

 Isle of Tombs," with monuments 

 dedicated to the great dead of all 

 time, virtuous citizens, dead or 

 even living friends ; this scene we 

 are told would always evoke 

 emotion. The next is of quite a 

 different kind ; a triumphal 

 bridge decorated with military 

 trophies and two rostral columns, leads from the Island of Sadness to 

 the Temple of Momus, placed within gay surroundings, well cut lawns, 

 flowery parterres ; here were established all sorts of Jeux Champetres, 

 a Balangoire, and Jeu de Bague. It was even suggested that failing a 

 better use the temple might be a fitting place for a billiard table. Now 

 we pass to the English garden, whose principal feature was to be the collec- 

 tion of evergreen trees, and then on to the Dutch garden, formally laid 

 out with tiny canals and a Temple of Venus decorated with shells and 



MONUMENT TO THE MEMORY OF CAPTAIN COOK 

 AT MEREVILLE. 



