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THE AMERICA N-SCANDINA VI AN REVIEW 
Colony Garden in a Suburb of Copenhagen 
licis built, and whether that which he has planted will give happiness 
to others after him. 
The villa garden is created out of these conditions. In close rela¬ 
tion to the house and to the shape of the land, the present villa garden 
is, as a rule, laid out quite regularly without any attempt at landscape 
gaidening. Tiees and shrubbery are more seldom planted, because 
no one cares to work with an eye to the future, but where there are old 
tiees these aie incorporated in the plan as far as possible, so as to give 
the new garden an old aspect. 
A few years ago it was chiefly roses that gave the villa gardens 
their coloring, after the unlamented passage of the stiff flower beds. 
Thereafter dahlias and perennials forced themselves into the fore¬ 
ground, esj^ecially the long borders of perennials trimmed with box or 
lavender. The perennials still hold sway, but the dahlias are almost 
entiiely out of date, and during the last few years it is mainly rock- 
gaiden peiennials which are popular, in addition to water and marsh 
plants. Characteristic of the modern villa gardens are the great 
masses of flowering plants, where one color succeeds another from the 
earliest spring until autumn writes its -finis. For the charm of the wild 
flowers there is often substituted a more or less artificial luxurious 
brilliancy of color. What a difference between the delicate bloom 
of the wild rose and the closely packed masses of flowers on the modern 
rambler! Sooner or later there must come a reaction against this, a 
striving back to nature and back to a serene and pleasing simplicity. 
This immodei ate fashion within the art of gardening is, however, 
not especially Danish. It is much more German and English, for it 
