TERRACE AND GARDEN WALLS 43 



placing the weeds with just a few of the plants that 

 might occur in such a place ; among others Wallflower 

 and Red Valerian and the native Stonecrops. In such 

 a wall, which is outside the garden, and seems rather 

 to belong to the park, it would be suitable to use 

 these good native plants rather than exotics, such as 

 would find a more fitting home within garden ground. 

 A half-double rambling Rose planted inside, and a 

 wild Clematis, both ramping and bounding over, and 

 hanging half-way down to the water, would also make 

 a pleasant break in the long line of the balustrade. 



In the further portion of the same moat, in the 

 picture showing the roof and window of the tea-house 

 and the Lombardy Poplars, the lower wall is the con- 

 tinuation of the same, but here it is more within 

 garden ground. The upper wall is the retaining wall 

 of the raised bowling-green, and, but that in this case 

 the wall is mostly used for fruit trees, would be a per- 

 fect place for many a little sun-loving rock-plant of 

 Southern Europe ; for here is that cool backing of the 

 mass of earth and that exposure to fullest sunshine 

 that afford the surest prospect of success with such 

 plants. It is to be hoped that this tempting double 

 terrace, which seems only to invite the careful minis- 

 trations of the sympathetic gardener, may some day 

 be worthily taken in hand. 



The double terrace always offers special opportuni- 

 ties for good gardening, for whereas the single line of 

 abrupt change of level, unless treated with some bold- 

 ness, may in certain aspects have a thin and meagre 

 appearance ; where it is doubled, there is an oppor- 



