Ill 
HE union — a happy marriage it 
should be — between the house 
beautiful and the ground near 
it,” says a recent English 
writer, “ is worthy of more thought than it 
has had in the past ; and the best ways of 
effecting that union artistically should in- 
terest men more and more as our cities 
grow larger, and our lovely English land- 
scape shrinks back from them.” 
This writer is an enthusiast for “ natural ” 
gardening methods, so we are not surprised 
to find that, in speaking of the ground near 
a country-house, he should say little about 
harmonizing it with the house itself, but 
much about uniting it agreeably with the 
landscape beyond its own borders. He 
calls this ground “ the garden,” which is 
its right old-fashioned name. But, in Amer- 
ica at least, “garden” is most generally 
understood as meaning very small grounds, 
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