VIEWS AND VISTAS 



primarily imposes the creation of a garden that shall, 

 while in itself complete, yet form a natural part of its 

 surroundings. 



We are all alive to the fascination of a view. Do 

 not we often go miles for the sake of views, and frequently 

 spend holidays in search of them ? Should not we then 

 have a greater regard for the views in our own home 

 garden, and, by careful scheming, endeavour either to 

 create fresh ones or to make the most of those 

 that exist already ? So many objects, in themselves 

 prosaic and even ugly, may not only pass muster 

 but actually give pleasure when shown in the land- 

 scape as part of a view. Let the reader, having 

 unpleasant objects in his garden, endeavour to mould 

 them in the making of a view. As one may, by the 

 skilled use of scissors, make two or three charming little 

 pictures from a big plain one, so, too, by careful treat- 

 ment of distinct parts of the garden may one utilise 

 commonplace objects in the planning of a miniature 

 masterpiece. 



A little stone or cement-faced Lily pond is not 

 necessarily an object of beauty, but it can be used to 

 excellent advantage by the gardener. He has merely to 

 build a low rockery round about it, planting this 

 with a few of the many lovely, bright-faced flowers, 

 preferably those of drooping habit, that are at his dis- 

 posal, and how great a change comes o'er the scene ! 

 Tufts of golden Alyssum, of purple Aubrietia, of white 



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