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space between the edge of the wood and the wide 

 paved way, here unbounded by any edging. Here 

 we have, in widespread groups, plants of rather large 

 stature Bamboos, and the great Knotweeds of Japan, 

 the large Tritomas and the Giant Reeds and grasses, 

 Arundo, Gynerium and Eulalia, and between them 

 the running water, now no longer confined in built 

 channels, but running free in shallow pebbly rills. 

 Here we have also other large-leaved plants the 

 immense Gunneras and the native Butter-bur, the 

 North American Rodgersia, and the peltate Saxifrage, 

 all happy on the lower cooler levels and gentle 

 slopes ; watered by the rill, and half shaded by the 

 nearer trees. As the path rises it comes clear of the 

 wood, and the garden spreads out right and left in 

 the lower levels of its terraced spaces. One of these, 

 perhaps the lowest, I should be disposed to plant 

 with Bamboos on both sides of a broad green path. 

 As the paved path mounts, the architectural features 

 become more pronounced ; the steps that were quite 

 plain below have a slight undercutting of the lower 

 part of the front. A little higher, and this becomes 

 a fully moulded feature, with a distinct shadow ac- 

 centuating the overhanging front edge of the step, 

 and so by an insensible gradation we arrive at the 

 full dress of the Lily court and terrace above. 



In so slight a sketch as this one cannot attempt to 

 describe in detail all the beautiful ways of using such 

 good things as Roses and Clematis (among hosts of 

 others) that such a garden suggests. But it is perhaps 

 in gardens of formal structure that some of their 



