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not here attempt to arbitrate between the two 

 opposing tastes, but shall frankly confess our delight 

 in these " children's " toys, asking the graver sort 

 among our readers to overlook our weakness with 

 a kind indulgence. 



We share with by far the greater number of the 

 gardeners of old time the love of all that is fanciful 

 and picturesque, provided that the materials thereof 

 and their method and disposition are in full harmony 

 with the garden atmosphere. Our art is akin to the 

 making of poetry, which in its lyric moods is 

 beautified by quaint conceits, and in its epic passages 

 is peopled by heroic forms and structures of strange 

 and fairy type. We set out to make of our garden 

 a palace of delights, and the more the imagination is 

 stimulated by these simple variations in mass and 

 outline the more completely do we attain the end in 

 view. 



The appropriateness of using such close-growing 

 foliage as box and yew in fashioning the decorative 

 features of the formal garden does not lie wholly 

 in the facility with which they can be clipped and 

 trained. It is the fact that they are of the very 

 growth of the garden, and that in colour and texture 



