204 GARDENS: THEIR FORM AND DESIGN 



enable it to hold its own at the end of a fine vista, 

 Fig. 119. 



Thus in our wanderings through many gardens we see 

 that there are fashions in all things, atid it rests with the 

 man or woman who knows the true beauty of the 

 individual garden in question to select the seats that 



will add most to restfulness, 

 and perhaps be the least 

 conspicuous. We know that 

 Rowlandson, in his illustra- 

 tions to " The Vicar of 

 Wakefield," was tempted to 

 do two separate illustrations 

 of that "seat overshadowed 



Fig. 119. 



by a hedge of hawthorne and honeysuckle" where so many 

 important incidents of that delightful story occur. We 

 find, top, that a different garden ornament may totally 

 convert a place which is insignificant or even unsightly in 

 appearance to a pleasing, delightful spot. As with the 

 arrangement of furniture in a house, so here it will not be 

 so much the striking beauty of the furniture as the 

 general restful, happy unity of the tout ensemble that will 

 send us away thinking, " What a perfect garden !" 



