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a lawn — so that when surrounded by brick walls 
they seem about two feet high when viewed outside, 
but are five feet or more high from within the gar- 
den. There are brick or stone steps in the middle 
of each of the four walls by which to descend to the 
garden, which may be all planted with flowers, but 
preferably should have set borders of flowers with 
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a grass-plot in the centre. On either side of the 
steps should be brick posts surmounted by Dutch 
pots with plants, or by balls of stone. Planted with 
bulbs, these gardens in their flowering time are, as 
old Parkinson said, a “ perfect fielde of delite.” 
We have very pretty Dutch gardens, so called, in 
America, but their chief claim to being Dutch is 
that they are set with bulbs, and have Delft or other 
earthen pots or boxes for formal plants or shrubs. 
