THE G ARDENERS' CHRONICLE. 



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We have before remarked, parenthetically, thai 

 there is a problem yet to be solved- -the arrange- 

 ment of Villa Gardens. Their space is necessarily 

 io circumscribed that to attempt a Landscape 



And the case in which the grounds of a Villa are 

 so situated that by artistical skill they may be mad* 

 to blend almost imperceptibly wit! 

 features of the whole Landscape, is sc 

 ht safely leave it out of our calculate 



beautiful Apple of Discord thrown amidst thousands 

 —and even millions — of Villa Inhabitants. One 

 fair Lady-owner prefers straight lines and angles. 

 Another advocates winding walks that lead nowhere. 

 Another is absorbed in flower pots. Another is 

 enthusiastic in favour of a mere shrubbery 

 hanced in its beauty by an occasional Cui 

 Apollo lurking stealthily amid the foliage. An 

 on severe and stern Spartan principle, will 

 nothing but a broad flag pavement from the 1 

 door to the garden-gate — flanked 

 an oblong Grass-plot — which 

 Privet hedge : a furbelow of Box being visible 

 along every possible border. 



If on a subject so really important we should 

 to any quarter for some original idea, it wi 

 assuredly be to the writings of an American Li 

 scape Gardener. There is no denying that 



• - ot Downing— laid down by him between 

 assertion of the Two-Schools-doctrine, and 

 lopment of their proofs and 

 I purely original. 



'hus speaks D. 

 sons with small ci 



> have neither rooi 

 improvement of i 



: flowers altogether; and that, 



Rces tasteful and agreeable *.. ... 



e answer— ty attempting only the simple and the 

 mural: and the unfailing way to secure this is by 

 japlojing only trees and grass. A soft 

 **D>aud a lew forest or ornamental tr 

 grouped, give universal pleasure ;-they o 

 ^selves, in fact, the basis of all our a,,.™ 



nations maLandscaoe Garden— (natural beauty 

 JJJ the recognition ofart)—md they 



uring sources of enjoyment in any 

 o/nere is certainly some truth in t 

 hilu 0Ur9 ! we concl "de that Downing 

 o7» I l a n 8 -' hat he does not comma 



■ wet Grass. T*** ;„ „ ;„„;_ , 



V mere accident 



*p he leaves o 



S 1 vi P WOl J ld Seem t0 De an oversight. To say that 



**h**nlT y ? Ur win dowinto the garden shall 



»*erj? T g but " trees and Grass '' is an exceS " 



more-h " SlVe lde \ to sa ? the Jear "* " 



banish' \ unn ^ural. To exclude 



ho*!v» . - Ure without whi <* no vi. 



pots we a-^ can be reyll y beautiful. Flower- 



YV e c 5 V ^ Up with tne vei 7 hest possible grace. 

 ^onwU \ ma S lne ' however, that in laying down 

 >kof "trees and Gra$s~ " 



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 13 ^temptei .' Wilhout an . v definite aim, everything 

 ft>rm g) ^ ' ani i a mixed jumble of discordant 



