GARDENS ENCLOSED, AND GARDEN 
HOUSES 
‘¢ The charges of building and making of gardens are unknown.” 
—George Herbert, ‘* Jaculum Prudentum,”’ 
OF course, all garths and gardens are enclosed, that is 
to say, fenced and more or less sheltered, but our 
‘‘garden enclosed” is meant to be a garden within a 
garden, a sort of “holy of holies,” being at one and 
the same time a wind-sheltered sun-trap and a site for 
a garden-house sacred as it were for one’s own children 
and to our most intimate of friends. As to the garden 
itself, its size and form may be anything provided that 
it is in keeping, or due proportion to its surroundings. 
In this particular instance it is to be a garden of sweet- 
scented plants and flowers, ‘‘a garden of spices.” “There 
must be grateful perfume as well as graceful form, and 
the glow of colour all over the place. As at least one 
room in a house may be sacred to quiet study, and 
literary or other art-work, so also may the enclosed 
garden, or one of them in large and extensive places, 
be devoted to similar seclusion, especially during fine 
weather, while also possessing the added delights of 
fresh air and sunshine, the presence of the birds, the 
butterflies, and the flowers. To the artist a studio in a 
garden is in many cases an inspiration also, even though 
one in the woods, as at Fontainebleau, at Epping, or 
Burnham might appeal quite as strongly to others. 
Men of letters and poetry like Tennyson, Turner, and 
Ruskin, C. Kingsley, and many others, may have done 
their actual writing or large pictures indoors, but the 
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