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HE union — a happy marriage it 

 should be — between the house 

 beautiful and the ground near 

 it," says a recent English 

 writer, ^' is worthy of more thought than it 

 has had in the past ; and the best ways of 

 effecting that union artistically should in- 

 terest men more and more as our cities 

 grow larger, and our lovely English land- 

 scape shrinks back from them." 



This writer is an enthusiast for natural " 

 gardening methods, so Ave are not surprised 

 to find that, in speaking of the ground near 

 a country-house, he should say little about 

 harmonizing it with the house itself, but 

 much about uniting it agreeably with the 

 landscape beyond its own borders. He 

 calls this ground ^'the garden," which is 

 its right old-fashioned name. But, in Amer- 

 ica at least, garden " is most generally 

 understood as meaning very small grounds, 



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