House and Garden 
flowing tails, or other strange shapes, awk¬ 
ward figures of men and animals which called 
forth the scourge of the writer in “The 
Guardian ” nearly two hundred years ago. 
He tells of a citizen who is no sooner pro¬ 
prietor of a couple of yews than he enter¬ 
tains thoughts of creating them into giants 
like those of Guildhall, of an eminent cook 
who beautified his country lawn with a coro¬ 
nation dinner in greens, where you see the 
champion flourishing on horseback at one 
end of the table, and the queen in per¬ 
petual youth at the other. Happily the 
fashion of clipping and hacking trees is 
not universally followed, and except in some 
districts, is rare in cottage gardens. In the 
accompanying view the outside hedge is 
trained and clipped so as to form a capacious 
porch, and the holly has been cut in the 
form of ascending globes. Clipped box-trees 
stand as guards on each side of the cottage 
door at Norton, in the Isle of Wight, which 
is overhung with vines, and the garden is 
raised about two feet higher than the path, 
which has a good effect. In the same village 
there is a charmingly picturesque house, a 
thatched cottage, very trim and neat, and 
in the garden the lilies, pinks and iris love 
to dwell. 
Nothing is more beautiful in some ot 
these gardens than the vistas and long paths 
which are occasionally found therein. Nigh 
Newport, in the Isle of Wight, is the village 
of Shide, wherein there is a cottage-garden 
which possesses this charming feature. 
There is a long turf walk carefully mown. 
The coloring of the flowers that deck the 
sides is extremely brilliant, the bright red 
of the poppy predominating. 
Another charming walk leads to a cottage 
at Yarmouth, also in the Isle of Wight. 
This path is also green with fine-cut turf. 
On each side pinks and roses bloom, and 
when you reach the end of the path you 
come to a wall overlooking the sea that girts 
our shores. There is a lovely garden path 
at the village of Wescott, near Dorking, in 
Surrey, which our artist has reproduced 
WESTOVER LODGE NEAR CALBORNE 
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