House & Garden 
every adjunct—trees, rocks, stones, water, 
tufts of herbage—all tell their tale in en¬ 
hancing some speaking preconceived effect 
of mind, of which the beholder is made con¬ 
scious, all knit together in one harmonious 
and appropriate whole. So in a well-arranged 
garden, no matter how richly garnished, how 
perfect in growth the trees and shrubs or 
how gay the flowers ; if these harmonizing 
qualities are absent, the general verdict either 
sooner or later is failure. How sad it is to see 
in gardens this failure to grasp a purpose in the 
whole, and to discover incapacity on the part 
of the designer to unite the various component 
parts in one united coherent harmony, dotting 
where either mass or expanse is desirable and 
vice versa, planting perhaps in accordance 
with some prescribed book-advocated trick of 
inserting dark foliaged trees in the recessed 
part of the plantations and light foliaged ones 
in the prominent parts, irrespective of the 
more important fact of the habits of branching 
of each variety, and the size and scale of 
leafage of each neighboring tree. 
Most melancholy it is to find these ex¬ 
pressionless gardens and parks. And what 
an abundance of this mediocre work is to be 
found, whose authors seem always to be pent 
up in the shoals and shallows of their pro¬ 
fession, never recognizing the time and tide 
of depth and clearness of vision ; the free¬ 
dom and breadth of purpose—the deeper 
waters—that the former shoals and shadows 
lead to. No matter what the utilitarian 
demands are, in an average of ninety-nine 
cases out of a hundred, a garden designer 
should, by the aid of the variety of materials 
at his command, succeed in securing an 
agreeable charm, and a suitable expression of 
completeness to his scheme as a whole,—a 
far more desirable end than to merely divert 
the mind to a few clever gardening tricks, 
which, no matter how well done, very soon 
weary the beholder. 
The historic association of Dover and its 
neighborhood are known to every school 
boy, but few seem to know that Walmer 
Lodge stood on the site of a Roman Camp. 
It therefore caused a considerable sensation 
when the gardener’s foreman came across the 
beautiful pottery shown in the photograph ; 
the find being one of the most notable on 
record. Of course the most valuable piece 
in the collection is the beautiful glass jar to 
which the photograph does not by any means 
do justice, since its beauty consists (as is the 
case with all old Roman glass) in its irides¬ 
cence. When found, the largest of the 
pieces contained cremated remains, whilst 
the smaller cups were arranged around them 
suggesting that they had been a kind of 
offering to the remains of the departed. The 
site upon which these were found is now 
marked by a sun-dial which bears an in¬ 
scription recording the find, and the date 
upon which the objects were unearthed, whilst 
the pavilion at the end of the raised terrace 
has been arranged as a garden museum, 
specially fitted cases having been constructed 
with the oak panelling. 
ROMAN REMAINS FOUND AT WALMER LODGE 
