European and Japanese Gardens 
of a place may simply serve as a background, a great drop- 
scene, which finishes the view and leaves one in doubt as to 
how much more there may be beyond. Many a small place of 
two or three acres gives an impression at once of seclusion and 
of size, because the great trees prevent one’s seeing what lies 
beyond. The larger places will, of course, have their copse 
and woodland ; but even here the marks of axe, mattock and 
saw show that thoroughness and care, and that eye to profit 
which pervade everything; for dead wood is always cleared 
out, the spindling trees are felled, the brushwood is cut and tied 
in fagots. Everywhere there are signs of an old industry, a 
well-worked country, where everything must be turned to 
account. When one wanders through English gardens and 
feels all their delight, one cannot but be convinced that com¬ 
mon-sense and thrift are the roots on which the beauty has 
grown and thrived. 
A HEDGE GATEWAY 
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