MY GARDEN phere of Italy. There it is the "garden glo- 



OF DREAMS • „ J & & 



nous. 



The development of the English garden into 

 the Elizabethan and the later sentimental 

 garden of the eighteenth century shows in a 

 most interesting way how garden art may be 

 affected by foreign motives. 



The sentimental garden grew out of a reac- 

 tion against the artificiality of the earlier gar- 

 dens, and sought to express better the human 

 sentiment which always seeks expression in 

 art. But sentiment may become artificial 

 because strained and exaggerated. Then it 

 degenerates into an affected mannerism, as it 

 did in the sentimental gardens of the later 

 period. 



The style of the sentimental garden was 

 copied largely from the Chinese emotional 

 garden, where it had been developed to a 

 degree that amazes the modern western mind. 

 There the garden was constructed to produce 

 not only emotions of pleasure, but of surprise, 

 of melancholy, and of terror. In the great 

 gardens of China are to be seen not only the 

 most pleasing landscape effects, but scenes of 



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