HEDGED-IN GARDENS 25 



If a building were high and not very wide the hedge could 

 be shaped like it. Then the little picture-frames made by 

 the arched lime-trees would be nice in an old-fashioned 

 garden, where though a high wall with " grilles " furnished 

 too great an expense, yet a view into another garden was 

 wanted. 



For a fence, where a simple but somewhat original 

 design is required, Fig. 23 would be suitable. A good 

 row of the Cardinal willow, 

 or else of sweet-briar behind 

 it, would look well ; formality 

 would be secured by means pj^ 



of the quaintly shaped 



pillars, and the round balls upon the subordinate uprights 

 could be gilt, in order to brighten the effect. 



At the seaside, particularly along the East Coast, we 

 notice hedges of tamarisk. They are excellent, because 

 the green, although not dark, is yet pleasing, and any 

 shrub that flourishes so well as this near the sea is a 

 useful addition to wind-swept gardens. The variety 

 Tamarix htspanica has a rather pretty pink flower. T. 

 gallica is a nice kind, and so is the summer-flowering T. 

 estevollis. 



Other good trees for the seaside, to form sheltering 

 belts or hedges, are willows, poplars, privet, euonymus, 

 escallonia, Garrya and Austrian pines. It is not 

 necessary to plant a continuous hedge of one kind of 

 bush only. An irregular one, in which are tamarisk, 

 sumach, snowberry, euonymus, yew, and many other 

 plants, gives interest. In front of this a wide border could 

 contain many herbaceous plants and annuals, and things 

 like the dwarf Oenothera, Sedum spurium, would be 

 pleasant in it. Such a garden might have, too, Poly- 

 gonum Main, the variegated Kerria, Abutilon vitifolium^ 

 and Solatium crispum. The difficulty in all suggestions 



