. European and Japanese gardens; papers read before the American Institute of Architects .. . ways, posts, copings and finials, they echo the character of thehouse. As one goes further from the house the walls are lessarchitectural and more purely utilitarian. The boundary wallof the place, or the north or east wall of the garden may be tenor twelve feet high, for these are to serve as a real protection ;others may be but two or three feet high, mere boundaries tomark a line. The hedge is perhaps the commonest bound ofall, and this varies from the rough pasture hedgerow to theclipped yew, or h
. European and Japanese gardens; papers read before the American Institute of Architects .. . ways, posts, copings and finials, they echo the character of thehouse. As one goes further from the house the walls are lessarchitectural and more purely utilitarian. The boundary wallof the place, or the north or east wall of the garden may be tenor twelve feet high, for these are to serve as a real protection ;others may be but two or three feet high, mere boundaries tomark a line. The hedge is perhaps the commonest bound ofall, and this varies from the rough pasture hedgerow to theclipped yew, or holly, or box. The ornamental clipping of 91 English Gardens hedp^es and individual trees, or what is known as topiary-work,was an importation from Holland, and at one time was verypopular. There are many examples of this work in the oldergardens, but to-day clipped work is rather more sober, and, onthe whole, more in keeping with the common-sense beauty ofthe P^nglish garden. Shrubs are rarely seen as individual show-plants, but aregenerally massed and placed with some special end in view. AN OUTLOOK FROM THE HOUSE beyond and apart from their mere beauty. They will ser\e toscreen the offices or the kitchen-yard, or to make a windbreakfor more delicate things growing on the borders of the also are used very cautiously as indi\idual a great plane tree or an ilex stands in lonely gran-deur at the edge of the lawn ; but, as a rule, the trees areplanted in groujjs to serve definite purposes,—sometimes toshut out an undesirable view, sometimes to form a vistatowards a pleasant scene. Again, a group of elms at the end 92 European and Japanese Gardens of a place may simply serve as a backt^round, a threat drop-scene, which finishes the view and lea\es one in doubt as tohow much more there may be beyond. Many a small place oftwo or three acres gives an impression at once of seclusion andof size, because the great trees ]3re\ent ones seeing what liesbe
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