House <y Garden 
sance. It is rather suggestive of the Kng- 
lish garden, which has usually sought the 
intimate privacy and homely feeling of the 
walled garth. But France 
from very old times loved 
this sort of garden as well. 
Renaissance elaboration 
did not greatly affect 
it. The fabliaux and the 
romans tell of bordered 
walks and shady bowers. 
Country gardens there had 
hedges about them ; and 
early in the XV. Century, 
they were laid out in regu¬ 
lar compartments with bor¬ 
ders of box, with straight 
walks, broad allees and 
arbors and quadrangles of 
turf with quincunxes of 
trees. One finds in France 
to-day the most delightful 
gardens within high walls, 
and laid out formally and 
with order, every inch of ground and wall 
put to the best use, but with those touches of 
beauty,—a border of bright bloom, a mass of 
violets, a regular planting of rose standards, 
a vine against an old wall,—which result 
from a certain unconscious taste, the 
birthright of the Latin 
races. 
Many more wonders 
and beauties of landscape 
art are to be found at 
Biltmore. We now take 
our leave by the winding 
road that discloses splen¬ 
did views of the house 
as we drive away. From 
one point there is a very 
forceful last impression 
of the chateau, loom¬ 
ing grimly on its emi¬ 
nence, very like the mass 
of Blois, and mirrored 
sharply in a great dark 
tarn by the roadside. 
Few opportunities 
more superb than was 
this at Biltmore are 
likely to 
architect. 
fall to the lot of the landscape 
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