Some English Gardens
Some English Gardens – 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 traveler’s, were the old pleasure- grounds of Rome and the neighboring districts, built and planted some sixteen hundred years ago..
