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improve the general appearance of the garden. 

 They are made in different shapes and sizes. Some 

 are very elaborately ornamented, but the kind of 

 which a sketch is given are the simplest and most 

 dignified. 



No one who has seen an Italian garden, so 

 arranged, can dispute the beauty of it. It may 

 be suggested that in England it would be difficult 

 to protect the terra-cotta from cracking in frosty 

 weather. Experience in southern counties has been 

 favourable, and should it not be so in colder places, 

 they can be put under cover for the winter months. 



The plan which is given is from drawings 

 made by the kindness of Miss M. G. Campion. 

 Although * it is rather elaborate, it could easily be 

 modified for a small garden. It represents about 

 an acre of land, which is cleverly arranged to allow 

 of the combined cultivation of fruit trees, flowers 

 and vegetables. It is closed in upon every side. 

 The house shelters it from the east wind, the long 

 orangery casts a shadow upon the south side and 

 makes it possible to have a lovely bed of lilies 

 of the valley near by. On the north, besides 

 the trees, is a high wall. The west is the most 

 exposed, as it has a hornbeam hedge through 

 which small openings are cut, to show the hills 

 with vineyards outside the grounds. Against the 

 hedges stand large, empty oil jars, in terra-cotta. 



