European and Japanese Gardens 
the view looking down. All the features we have considered 
may be worked out on a groundwork of terraces, and their 
possibilities as well as their charms, are endless. Sedding 
well said that however much we were refined and cultivated 
there was always an underlying savagery which at times 
demanded satisfaction. One must tire of the sure mark of 
man’s hand, and long for nature unrestrained : the wide sea¬ 
board and the rude forest. So one finds in almost every Eng¬ 
lish place of any size some wilderness, some copse, or combe, 
which shall be left free and wild, or at the least a reminder of 
nature quite free. But the transition from the cultivated aspect 
of nature to its wilder form must be gradual; one does not 
want to open the garden-gate in the wall and be in the forest. 
Between the two, one finds the pasture-lands, rolling, sheep- 
cropped fields, bordered not with the masonry wall or the 
clipped hedge, but with the wild hedgerow, thick with thorn 
and holly and punctuated with the upstanding elms. From the 
pastures to the copse and the woodland the transition is easy- 
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