46 Hints on Landscape Gardening 



be confined to evergreen plants, and in our cold 

 climate it is very difficult to grow any variety. 

 Orangeries and hotjipuses bdong to them ; also 

 statues and fountains, which, even when the water 

 freezes, do not lose their picturesque character. 

 Rggular arrangements after^ncient models^ or 

 French taste growing therefrom yield the best 

 results, and if the effect of turf is desired, then 

 evergreen creeping plants or the bright green 

 dwarf bilberry and cranberry plants may be util- 

 ,ized. I can only touch slightly on these points, 

 partly on account of the numerous details which 

 lie out of the scope of this work, and partly be- 

 cause further remarks will be forthcoming in my 

 description of the park at Muskau. 

 ^ I close this chapter, therefore, with the re- 

 mark that kitchen and fruit gardens, although 

 essentially for use, can be made pleasing to the 

 eye by the happy arrangement of the beds of the 

 first, and in the second by the training of fruit 

 trees en espalier or by the trellising of them on 

 walls (see Table I c) ; by convenient paths, and 

 by the utmost cleanliness and order, so that one 

 may here enjoy the warm sunlight in the spring, 

 or later in the year pluck the ripest fruit. In 

 England, where everything is made to serve the 

 utmost convenience, strawberries are planted in 

 terraces near the paths, to be reached without 

 troublesome stooping. And raised paths are made 

 under the fruit trees, so that cherries and apples 

 grow on the level of the stroller. Several lengths 

 of wall are built in the middle of the kitchen 



