"ANTICKE WORKS" 



SURELY the naive honesty of old-time speech has 

 turned no happier combination than this, which 

 designates all the alike, yet dissimilar, garden features 

 for which we to-day have no general term. What 

 other word or phrase could possibly convey the full 

 idea so neatly? Where else in our language shall we 

 find so true an expression of that rather labored play- 

 ful spirit of the old garden makers, that was at the 

 same time a little shamefaced and self-conscious? 

 Not certainly among any of the words that seek to 

 explain its meaning. "Odd, fantastic, fanciful and 

 grotesque," are none of them enough — ^yet they are 

 too much. But even if their measure were exact, 

 they carry none of the refreshment and delight which 

 lie in the older, simpler descriptive. 



But American gardens have never been rich in "an- 

 ticke works," unhappily. Summer-houses and arbors 

 seem to have been the nearest expression to a "sport- 



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