98 GARDENS : THEIR FORM AND DESIGN 



reproduce. There is a decided feeling amongst the 

 moderate, broad-minded admirers of old-fashioned garden 

 craft that there are certain positions in modern gardens 

 where a touch of it will greatly enhance the values 

 of natural grouping. As the artist, having worked 

 up quietly, and in a minor key, a large porticm of his 

 canvas, knows just where to give that bright and 

 gleaming bit of detail which will carry the eye to the 







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Fig. 72. 



important feature of his picture, so it is with garden 

 design. Near the house, and where formality calls for a 

 light touch, a playfulness, there we can with full assurance 

 have recourse to a small piece of topiary work. 



Such quaint cut figures as Fig. 72 either may be 

 isolated in some rather striking position in a garden, 

 where they give relief to brilliant colouring and fit in 

 with the historic date of the building, or, more often, are 

 best in pairs to form an entrance to a surprise garden. 



It is but poor fun to spend some guineas upon buying 

 a box or yew tree shaped to a conventional pattern, and 

 chosen from amongst innumerable similar ones at a 

 crowded flower-show. The amusement comes by each 



