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126 THE FORMAL GARDEN IN ENGLAND vi.
plot beyond was laid out as an enormous sun-
dial, the hours probably shown in box or rose-
mary on an oval of sand, with an upright
dial formed of wood in the centre. Olivier de
Serres mentions a similar sundial, in which
a single cypress formed the dial.1 Such a
Fig. 26.
garden, if it had been preserved, would have
been beyond all price to us now. The ridicule
with which such work is dismissed, the abuse
lavished on it as artificial, is beside the mark.
It is just this very artifice, this individuality,
this human interest, that gives to the old formal
garden its undying charm—the feeling that once
there was a man or a woman who cared about
1 Theatre d'Agriculture, p. 531.
plot beyond was laid out as an enormous sun-
dial, the hours probably shown in box or rose-
mary on an oval of sand, with an upright
dial formed of wood in the centre. Olivier de
Serres mentions a similar sundial, in which
a single cypress formed the dial.1 Such a
Fig. 26.
garden, if it had been preserved, would have
been beyond all price to us now. The ridicule
with which such work is dismissed, the abuse
lavished on it as artificial, is beside the mark.
It is just this very artifice, this individuality,
this human interest, that gives to the old formal
garden its undying charm—the feeling that once
there was a man or a woman who cared about
1 Theatre d'Agriculture, p. 531.