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.