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At Lenox, U.S.A., excellent clipped hedges 
of spruce took the place of yew and holly 
and looked well — another instance of making 
the best use of the native material where, 
owing to climate, yews and holly fail. 
The most charming gardens of all are those 
arranged on slopes falling away in terraces, 
but it must be admitted that they are the 
most costly to make. Of late a fashion has set 
in for a rounded bastion built out instead of 
continuing the terraces to the bottom, and five 
hundred pounds can easily be spent on a small 
garden of this sort, as the masonry and the 
moving of masses of soil is a heavy item. If 
the borders are not banked up by some re- 
taining wall, the good soil will be washed 
down and away by any heavy rains. When a 
garden is on a slope, great scope exists for the 
making of glades, and most charming effects 
are thereby attained ; but this is more for wild 
gardening purposes than for herbaceous borders, 
when it is absolutely necessary to terrace. 
Some simple terracing, such as is seen in the 
small hillside gardens on the Riviera, is better 
for a small garden than more expensive designs 
and balustrades. There the borders, in which 
the carnations and violets for the markets are 
grown beneath the partial shade of olive trees, 
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