We have also had the valuable assistance of Mr. Marcus B. Huish, of The Fine Art Society, who has taken the greatest interest in the work from its inception.

G. S. E.
G. J.

CONTENTS

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[Brockenhurst][1]
[Hollyhocks at Blyborough][5]
[Great Tangley Manor][8]
[Bulwick Hall][11]
[Bramham][15]
[Melbourne][18]
[Berkeley Castle][23]
[Summer Flowers][26]
[a]The Yew Alley, Rockingham][33]
[Brympton][36]
[Balcaskie][39]
[Crathes Castle][42]
[Kellie Castle][47]
[Hardwick][52]
[Montacute][55]
[Ramscliffe][58]
[Levens][63]
[Campsey Ashe][67]
[Cleeve Prior][70]
[Condover][74]
[Speke Hall][76]
[Garden Roses][79]
[Penshurst][82]
[Brickwall][87]
[Stone Hall, Easton][90]
[The Deanery Garden, Rochester][93]
[Compton Wynyates][96]
[Palmerstown][99]
[St. Anne’s, Clontarf][101]
[Auchincruive][104]
[Yew Arbour: Lyde][107]
[Autumn Flowers][110]
[Mynthurst][115]
[Abbey Leix][118]
[Michaelmas Daisies][121]
[Arley][125]
[Lady Coventry’s Needlework][129]

ILLUSTRATIONS

From Pictures in the
possession of		To face
page
[Phlox]Mr. George E. B. Wrey[Frontispiece]
[The Terrace, Brockenhurst]Mr. G. N. Stevens[2]
[Brockenhurst: The Garden Gate]Miss Radcliffe[4]
[Blyborough: Hollyhocks]Mr. C. E. Freeling[6]
[The Pergola, Great Tangley]Mr. Wickham Flower[8]
[Bulwick: Autumn]Lord Henry Grosvenor[11]
[Bulwick: The Gateway]Lord Henry Grosvenor[12]
[The Pool, Bramham]Sir James Whitehead, Bart[16]
[Melbourne]Mr. W. V. R. Fane[18]
[Melbourne: Amorini]Mr. J. W. Ford[20]
[The Lower Terrace, Berkeley Castle]Mr. Albert Wright[24]
[Orange Lilies and Larkspur]Mr. George C Bompas[26]
[White Lilies and Yellow Monkshood]Mr. Herbert D. Turner[28]
[Purple Campanula]Miss Beatrice Hall[30]
[The Yew Alley, Rockingham]Miss Willmott[34]
[The Gateway, Brympton]Mr. Edwin Clephan[36]
[The Apollo, Balcaskie]Miss Bompas[40]
[The Yew Walk, Crathes]Mr. Charles P. Rowley[42]
[Crathes]Mr. George C. Bompas[44]
[Crathes: Phlox]Mrs. Croft[46]
[Kellie Castle]Mr. Arthur H. Longman[48]
[The Forecourt, Hardwick]Mr. Aston Webb[52]
[Montacute: Sunflowers]Mr. E. C. Austen Leigh[56]
[Ramscliffe: Orange Lilies and Monkshood]Mr. C. E. Freeling[58]
[Ramscliffe: Larkspur]Miss Kensit[60]
[Levens]Major Longfield[63]
[Levens: Roses and Pinks]Mrs. Archibald Parker[65]
[The Yew Hedge, Campsey Ashe]Mr. H. W. Search[68]
[The Twelve Apostles, Cleeve Prior]Sir Frederick Wigan[70]
[Cleeve Prior: Sunflowers]Mr. James Crofts Powell[72]
[Condover: The Terrace Steps]Miss Austen Leigh[74]
[Speke Hall]Mr. George S. Elgood[76]
[“Viscountess Folkestone”]Mr. R. Clarke Edwards[80]
[“Gloire de Dijon,” Penshurst]Sir Reginald Hanson, Bart.[82]
[Penshurst: The Terrace Steps]Mr. Frederick Greene[84]
[Brickwall, Northiam]Mr. R. A. Oswald[88]
[Stone Hall, Easton: The Friendship Garden]The Countess of Warwick[90]
[The Deanery Garden, Rochester]Mr. G. A. Tonge[94]
[Compton Wynyates]Mr. George S. Elgood[96]
[China Roses and Lavender, Palmerstown]Mrs. Kennedy-Erskine[99]
[St. Anne’s, Clontarf]Miss Mannering[102]
[Auchincruive]Mr. R. A. Oswald[104]
[The Yew Arbour, Lyde]Mr. George E. B. Wrey[107]
[Phlox and Daisy]Lady Mount-Stephen[112]
[Mynthurst]Miss Radcliffe[116]
[Abbey-Leix]Sir James Whitehead, Bart.[118]
[Michaelmas Daisies, Munstead Wood]Mr. T. Norton Longman[122]
[The Alcove, Arley]Mrs. Campbell[125]
[The Rose Garden, Arley]Mrs. Huth[126]
[Lady Coventry’s Needlework]Mrs. Appleton[129]

BROCKENHURST

The English gardens in which Mr. Elgood delights to paint are for the most part those that have come to us through the influence of the Italian Renaissance; those that in common speech we call gardens of formal design. The remote forefathers of these gardens of Italy, now so well known to travellers, were the old pleasure-grounds of Rome and the neighbouring districts, built and planted some sixteen hundred years ago.

Though many relics of domestic architecture remain to remind us that Britain was once a Roman colony, and though it is reasonable to suppose that the conquerors brought their ways of gardening with them as well as their ways of building, yet nothing remains in England of any Roman gardening of any importance, and we may well conclude that our gardens of formal design came to us from Italy, inspired by those of the Renaissance, though often modified by French influence.