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and thriving, and look quite in keeping with their surroundings.
The low bushes ’ in the background are varieties of cistus, all
quite at home in the Surrey copse.* * * § There is great scope for wild
gardening on the banks of streams and lakes, and even in the water
itself. The new hybrid water lilies raised by Marliac in France,
and coming to us from that country, are one of the latest additions
to gardens, and in a few years their worth will be recognized.t
The numbers of lilies imported from Japan have added yet
another feature to nineteenth-century gardens. The varieties of
hardy Rhododendrons and Azaleas, collected from East and West,
now form so striking a picture in nearly every garden and public
park, it is scarcely possible to imagine a time when England was
not possessed of these treasures.
There has been a movement of late years in favour of
the formal garden,J and the study of old works on gardens
has naturally had a tendency to increase this. In the garden at
Ascott, § laid out within the last fifteen years, partly in a formal
style, there is a remarkable collection of old cut yew and box
trees. Some of these were transplanted from neighbouring
cottage gardens, but many were brought over from Holland.
Other formal gardens have been made in England within this
century which are equal in beauty to any older ones. Those of
Penshurst in Kent, Arley in Cheshire,|| Blickling in Norfolk, and
Montacute in Somerset are well-known instances, all differing in
style, and by their beauty bear better testimony to the many
advantages of a formal garden than any written arguments
could do. The garden has always been considered as,
and always must be, an adjunct of the house, and therefore
must accord with it, if it is to look well. No one would put
an Elizabethan garden in front of an Italian house, or vice
versa, and an old-fashioned formal garden would not look well
* Miss Jekyll’s garden, Munstead, Godaiming.
t Nymphea rosea, N. sulphurea, N. odorata, N. Marliacea, and its varieties,
rosea, rubra, carnea, &c.
J The Formal Garden. By Blomfield and Thomas. Garden Craft Old and
New. By John Sedding.
§ Near Leighton Buzzard, belonging to Leopold Rothschild, Esq.
|| Belonging to P. Egerton Warburton, Esq. See illustration on page 288.