GARDENS OF MANY KINDS 7 
surrounding flower beds are set in the turf. There 
is a good garden suggestion, too, in the “Isle of 
Love” at Chantilly; this for a short vista of flowers 
and water. Another, for box-lined parterres, will 
be found in the garden of the Grand Trianon, 
at Versailles, and still another, for a paved court, 
in the Orangery at the same place. 
The English garden, when highly formal, is 
very apt to show traces of Italian or French in- 
fluence. In its less grand estate it possesses a 
charm that neither of the others has—a certain 
atmosphere of the home. Beauty it has, often of 
an exquisitely reposeful sort that is lacking in Italy 
and France; but there is the feeling that the beauty 
is not so much for art as to live with and love by 
personal association. To bind it still more closely 
to the home, the bowling green, the tennis court 
or croquet ground may be made part of it, and it 
is a common practice to enclose it with a wall or 
clipped hedges to insure seclusion. 
Where foreign copying is to be done, it is to 
English gardens that the American would better 
look in most cases; if he is able to appropriate their 
homely air, their restfulness and their seclusion 
he need not mind if his work is not scholastic. 
Atmosphere rather than design being the dis- 
tinguishing feature, the best way to make an Eng- 
lish garden is to enclose—preferably with a wall 
of stone or brick—a plot laid out in a formal pat- 
tern. Whether the plot is exactly square is im- 
material. 
