THE WELL-CONSIDERED GARDEN 



seemed to broaden and pleasure certainly to in- 

 crease in planting, working, and writing. And it 

 ends, thanks to the goodness of stranger and 

 friend alike, fortissimo and allegro too, with gar- 

 den picture and garden sketch in writing, the latter 

 intimate and fresh to a degree, since in most in- 

 stances it is supplied by the garden's owner. It 

 will be readily seen that these, like Sir Thomas 

 More's Utopians, "sett great stoore be theyr 

 gardeins." 



From East to West these gardens lie in a sort 

 of dipping line across the continent, with the ex- 

 ception of the Philadelphia example. But before 

 setting forth on this horticultural journey, there 

 are here to be noticed pictures of two gardens at 

 a London flower show — one, though in an unfin- 

 ished state when photographed, giving excellent 

 suggestion in design; the other beautiful, rarely 

 so, for its flower grouping. These were examples 

 of fine gardening on exhibition at the International 

 Show of 1912 in London by the English firm of 

 Wallace & Company, of Colchester — ^at that 

 show which will, live in the history of horticulture 

 as the largest and best ever held in Great Britain. 

 The little sunken garden carries with it a quiet 

 charm of line and proportion. Perhaps the dry 



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