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the house or other walls. As an example of a lime- 

 walk that is perfect in this respect we may instance the 

 one near Kensington Palace. From the recesses of the 

 orangery, when we look across towards that beautiful and 

 dignified William III. building, we are struck by the 

 excellent proportion of the surrounding hedges and the 

 harmony of the whole. Here are breadth and dignity. 



Treillage designs cannot be thrust, by any means, into 

 every garden, or even into any part of a suitable garden. 

 Where trees have been felled, and in the clearing of the 

 wood a house has recently been built, it probably would 

 be incongruous to put treillage-work. There are, how- 

 ever, many public gardens and stately private places 

 where somewhat of a Le N6tre treatment is surely needed. 

 We hope that by showing examples of the best workman- 

 ship we may tempt owners of gardens to give the matter 

 their attention. Unfortunately, it seems that there is a 

 somewhat hard line of demarcation between the formal and 

 informal schools of garden design, and neither is inclined 

 to shake hands firmly with the other. Both, in reality, 

 are wanted, and it only needs the master hand to join 

 them into one harmonious whole. Architectural lines 

 would then only be near buildings, and as one approached 

 the further boundaries of the garden informal lines would 

 succeed them. The transition should be so gradual as 

 hardly to be noticeable. Perhaps the fault has been that 

 formal gardens have either been carried out in many 

 cases solely by architects who frankly own their ignorance 

 of the natural surroundings of plants, or else have been 

 hurriedly designed by people who have not travelled, and 

 to whom the best examples of such work in Italy and 

 France are unknown. These workmen execute so many 

 " my lady's gardens " a year, wherein the personal touch, 

 which would make it in reality her garden, is lacking. 

 We tread upon delicate ground in venturing such 



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