Art Out-of-Doors 
On the continent there was a less reckless 
wish to obliterate the creations of the past, 
but here too landscape - gardening became 
the fashion ; new places were designed in 
naturalistic ways, and “English gardens” 
were added to the old formal parks around 
royal palace and private chateau. 
Up to the present day landscape-garden- 
ing has remained the form of art almost ex- 
clusively practised in England, Germany, 
and France, as well as in this country. 
But in comparatively recent years there has 
been a marked revival of a love for certain 
formal gardening features. We hardly think 
of laying-out even small gardens in the ways 
familiar to our far-off ancestors ; but we de- 
light to use, in our formal arrangements, the 
stiff pattern-beds or “ knots ” which played 
a conspicuous part in their architectonic de- 
signs. 
The revival of these beds and borders 
is sometimes attributed to that fancy for 
bright-flowered geraniums and pelargoniums 
which, a generation ago, was so strong that, 
in England at least, it amounted to a verit- 
able craze ; and to the general introduction, 
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