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growing ; a bold group of Bamboos and Bocconia cordata ; 

 or simply with a selection of a few low-growing shrubs ; 

 and so on ad infinitum. Another way, and one that finds 

 small favour with gardeners, and with considerable reason, 

 because of the trouble of turning the mowing-machine 

 round the plants, is to break up the lawn with sunshine- 

 loving specimen plants — Mulberries, Savins, Sumachs, 

 clumps of creeping Ayrshire Eoses and Honeysuckles, 

 poles covered with claret-coloured Vines, Clematis, &c. 

 Yet another way is to have a double pergola running all 

 round the lawn in a square, or only down both sides, 

 with a grass path, broad and stately, underneath the 

 pergola. This can be made of stone or brick, oak-trees 

 or fir -poles ; or, if wanted very light, of Japanese large 

 Bamboos — to be got now in London, I believe. These 

 Bamboos look best if two, three, or five are blocked to- 

 gether unequally, with different-sized openings in between, 

 and used as supports for fruit-trees and flowering shrubs 

 of all kinds. As these plants grow, bamboos and wires 

 have to be put across the top to support the creepers. In 

 the middle is a large square of grass ; the openings are 

 left turfed, but where the supports are put into the ground 

 a narrow bed must be made for the plants. This enables 

 them to be manured, chalked, watered, and generally 

 cared for. I now come to what is, in my idea, by far the 

 most enchanting plan for breaking up a lawn, which is to 

 sink a smaU Dutch garden in the middle of it. The 

 size of the Dutch garden must, of course, be in proportion 

 to that of the lawn. If the proportion cannot be kept, it 

 would be better to leave it alone. It should have a red- 

 brick wall all round it, and be oblong or square, as suits 

 the situation. The entrances to it are by brick steps, one 

 in the middle of each of the four sides. The height of 

 the wall is about three feet from the ground on the outside, 

 and five feet on the inside. Along these walls, on the 



