LANDSCAPE ART AT KEW 
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far-spreading lawns, its gay parterres and borders of flowers, and 
its flowering shrubs ? It is a garden peculiarly characteristic of the 
country, owing, as it does, its existence as much to English climatic 
conditions as to the proclivities of English people. It represents no 
slavish adhesion to any one set of views, and, where formal treatment 
is necessary or appropriate, this is frankly adopted. 
Such a garden of “ suave and ample effects ” Kew aims to be, 
always subject, of course, to those interests and necessities of science 
on the one hand, and to the public enjoyment on the other, which 
have just been adverted to. 
