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both. The plants that are natural to the climate 

 and soil are at once detected in this way, and 

 knowledge is obtained as to what will most 

 speedily lend itself to an effect of foliage or colom:. 

 Often, the chance arrangement of a large mass 

 of gypsophila with bright colom-ed nasturtiums 

 interwoven with its feathery flowers, or pansies 

 springing up between an old paved path, may 

 give ideas for a large garden. The " Traveller's 

 Joy," and blackberries, that grow so rampantly 

 on chalk, will make a pergola look clothed 

 before a rarer plant could grow three feet up 

 it. 



If possible, a trip abroad should be taken ; it 

 would give fresh ideas, if the fields of mauve 

 autumn crocuses in France, or the terraces and 

 vineyards of Italy, could be seen. There are so 

 many different ways of building pergolas, training 

 creepers, and tying vines to posts. If we adopt 

 some of these foreign styles in England it gives 

 a touch of Italy to our tame English gardens. 

 Copious notes should be made of all that is seen, 

 and the knowledge thus acquired can be readily 

 applied to designs for gardens here. 



All books on landscape gardening, new and 

 old, must be studied ; many old-fashioned plans 

 of mazes and beds can so easily be used or adapted 

 to modern grounds, and with some knowledge of 



