CHAPTER VII 



TERRACE AND GARDEN WALLS (continued) 



To any one who has both practised and studied garden- 

 ing for a number of years, and has at last acquired a 

 glimmering of illumination as to what is best to be 

 done in the many circumstances presented by various 

 sites, it is immensely instructive to see gardens or even 

 to see pictures of them. Perhaps the pictures are 

 even the best, if there are enough of one place to give 

 an idea of all its portions, or if there are several illus- 

 trations of some important feature. In the black and 

 white presentment of a scene, that can be held in the 

 hand and examined quietly and at leisure, without the 

 distractions of brilliant sunshine or colour, or wind or 

 rain, or the company of one's fellow-creatures (how- 

 ever charming and sympathetic they may be), the 

 merits of the scene can be very fairly judged. It may 

 therefore be useful to make a few remarks on a de- 

 finite piece of gardening ; an important wall-garden in a 

 fine place in Somerset. The four pictures give an 

 accurate idea of the steeply terraced garden. The first 

 shows both terraces, with a glimpse of the walk on the 

 third or lowest level, and the still steeply sloping grass 

 below. The next two pictures show the middle level, 

 looking both ways from nearly midway in its length. 



