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or of common yew or box. The paths, slightly bevelled 

 to shed water, are of clay mixed with small pieces 

 of flint, pounded and rolled until so hard and com- 

 pact that the surface affords no foothold for weeds. 

 The outer border is treated like a series of closed 

 knots ; that is, the patterns, outlined with yew or box, 

 are close or filled with flowers. Among these are 

 eight beds planted with gladioli and white stock, 

 eight with tiger-lilies and white snap-dragon, and eight 

 with salpiglossis. The three beds forming a quarter 

 of a circle at each corner are filled with salvia. Inside 

 the border the earth is raised above the level of the 

 path nearly as high as the top of the yew edging. 

 Each corner is accented by a cone-shaped yew on the 

 outer and a trim rose-bush on the inner angle. 



Next, and separated from the border only by a path The open 

 and a flat band of grass, come the quarters. These 

 are divided into open knots of variegated holly and 

 yew, the golden foliage of one contrasting with the 

 dark green of the other. A basket-shaped vase of 

 flowers marks each corner with a bright spot of colour 

 rising above the masses of closely clipped foliage 

 forming the knots. 



Encircling the fountain is a curved bed divided into 

 four sections by the cross paths and planted with pink 

 pentstemon. Crimson rambler roses are trained over 

 the arches of iron tubing, and the Isaac Perrier rose 



