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flowers, the paths being out of sight. You 

 can have no idea, without having seen it, 

 how much flowers gain by being raised up 

 thus, nearer to the level of the eye. At any 

 rate I think that a large part of every garden 

 should be treated in this fashion. I re- 

 member E. W. Cooke, R.A., had something 

 of the sort in his garden at Groombridge, 

 which he used to call ''The Bamboozleum," 

 the paths were scooped out amongst and 

 between some sandstone rocks, the hollows 

 were planted with bamboos, and the raised 

 ledges with Alpine plants ; it was a delightful 

 spot. In greenhouses and conservatories 

 flowers are seen thus raised up, but the pots 

 and obvious artificiality detract from the 

 effect. 



The floods last November came across the 

 tennis-court right up to this raised border, and 

 completely covered a little bog-garden which 

 is just beneath the wall, and the whole of 

 this small bog-garden must afterwards have 

 been frozen solid for a long time in the 



