House & Garden 
sturdier brethren, the ever-faithful box, the 
holly, with its crimson berries rivalling sum¬ 
mer’s most gorgeous color, the thorn, the 
golden euonymus, the mountain laurel, never 
so beautiful as when hall buried in snow, 
the acuba,with its variegated color, these are 
held as hostages for the fulfilment of 
Nature’s promise that beneath the wintry 
cover she holds a thousand buds, all too 
requirements of each terrace considered as a 
unit. And each terrace is not only planted in 
subservience to its particular “ genius,” but 
its form and plants are selected in view of the 
winter months as well as the summer season. 
And now a final word in respect to the for¬ 
mal garden as a distinct style. The making ol 
formal gardens in this country is a new art. 
Many of the beauties which they represent are 
THE STEPS AT CLIFTON HALL NOTTINGHAM, ENGLAND 
The succinctness oh architecture combined with the exuberance offoliage is an u’timate end of garden art 
impatiently watching for the first warm ray 
of spring. 
“ E’en while the vital heart retreats below, 
E’en while the hoarv head is lost in snow. 
The life is in the leaf, and still between 
The fits of falling snow appears the streaky green.” 
Thus we have the three terraces so 
designed, that the planting scheme for the 
whole garden is accommodated to the 
borrowed from the storehouse of rich treasures 
of the European gardens. But the one essen¬ 
tial principle upon which the perfection of 
these latter gardens depends, has been, gen¬ 
erally speaking, neglected in this country. A 
comparison of our modern gardens with the 
classic gardens of Europe is correlative to a 
comparison between a series of vignettes and a 
picture finished in all its details. The one is a 
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