NOTES ON THE ILLUSTRATIONS 



of Daw's Hill Lodge (Plates XLIV and XLV), a house chat is 

 delightful by its very absence of pretentiousness. 



Among the other places which are illustrated some, like Dropmore 

 (Plates XLVI to XLVIII), Bridge Castle (Plates LV and LVI), 

 and Embley Park (Plates LI to LIII) combine formality and freedom 

 in about equal proportions, and present a well-planned commingling 

 of features which belong to both formal and landscape gardening. 

 Others, like Bowood (Plates XXI and XXII) and Tring Park (Plates 

 CXXIII to CXXVI), exemplify well the way in which the gardener 

 can draw upon the recognised authorities for the various parts of his 

 design, and can bring together within a more or less limited area 

 the results of his study of several schools of garden-making. And 

 another, like Sedgwick Park (Plates CXIV and CXV) shows how 

 formality can be made fantastic and how a strict formula can be 

 modified to satisfy a desire for a fanciful effect. To compare the 

 arrangement of clipped hedges and an artificial sheet of water at 

 Sedgwick with the management of similar features at Brockenhurst 

 Park, for example, is decidedly instructive, for by this comparison 

 it can be realised how little justified the opponents of formal 

 gardening are in their contention that acceptance of certain principles 

 of design must necessarily lead to unnatural regularity and repetition 

 of conventional forms. 



To a class of gardens that is particularly English in its main 

 characteristics belong such places as Ven Hall (Plates CXXVIII to 

 CXXX), Great Tangley Manor (Plates I, LVIII, and LIX), 

 Broadands, (Plates XXV and XXVI), Beauheu Palace (Plate XIV), 

 the college gardens at Oxford (Plates XC, CXII and CXXXI), and 

 those at Farnham Castle (Plate LVII), and the Bishop's Palace, 

 Salisbury (Plate CXIII). They have a certain savour of antiquity, 

 a solid dignity which comes partly from their associations and partly 

 from the glamour which age has given them. Their charm is 

 scarcely dependent upon subtleties of design ; it results rather from 

 an element of unexpectedness, from more or less surprising departures 

 from rule which have come about accidentally during the lapse of 

 years. There is none of this unexpectedness in a garden like that at 

 Hinton Admiral (Plates LXXIV to LXXVI), where the hand of 

 the skilled designer well acquainted with modern devices can be 

 plainly traced ; but it is pleasantly evident in the shady walks at 

 Ven or in the quaint corner of the Bishop's Palace at Salisbury. 

 It is felt, too, very definitely in the Devonshire gardens, Chaddle- 

 wood (Plates XXXVI and XXXVII), Eggesford House (Plates 

 XLIX and L), Green way House (Plates LX and LXI), and Killerton 



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