Art Out-of-Doors 



On the continent there was a less reckless 

 wish to obliterate the creations of the past, 

 but here too landscape - gardening became 

 the fashion ; new places were designed in 

 naturahstic ways, and ^^Enghsh gardens'^ 

 wxre added to the old formal parks around 

 royal palace and private chateau. 



Up to the present day landscape-garden- 

 ing has remained the form of art almost ex- 

 clusively practised in England, Germany, 

 and France, as well as in this country. 

 But in comparatively recent years there has 

 been a marked revival of a love for certain 

 formal gardening features. We hardly think 

 of laying-out even small gardens in the ways 

 familiar to our far-off ancestors ; but we de- 

 light to use, in our formal arrangements, the 

 stiff pattern-beds or knots " which played 

 a conspicuous part in their architectonic de- 

 signs. 



The revival of these beds and borders 

 is sometimes attributed to that fancy for 

 bright-flowered geraniums and pelargoniums 

 which, a generation ago, was so strong that, 

 in England at least, it amounted to a verit- 

 able craze ; and to the general introduction, 

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