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garden occupies one side of the flower-garden, the 

 terrace may with advantage be carried to the full 

 extent of the ground, and the kitchen-garden separ- 

 ated by a hedge and shrubs ; and at the upper end of 

 the kitchen-garden may be a narrow garden, geo- 

 metrical, rock, or other garden, set next the terrace 

 wall. 



The treatment of the upper terrace should be 

 strictly architectural. If the terrace be wide, raised 

 beds with stone edging, set on the inner side of the 

 terrace, say alternately long beds with dwarf flower- 

 ing shrubs or hydrangeas, and circles with standard 

 hollies, or marble statues on pedestals, that shall 

 alternate with pyramidal golden yews, have a good 

 effect, the terrace terminating with an arbour or 

 stone Pavilion. Modern taste, however, even if it 

 condescend so far as to allow of a terrace, is content 

 with its grass plot and gravel walks, which is not 

 carrying Art very far. 



Laneham tells of the old pleasaunce at Kenilworth, 

 that it had a terrace 10 ft. high and 12 ft. wide 

 on the garden side, in which were set at intervals 

 obelisks and spheres and white bears, " all of stone, 

 upon their curious bases," and at each end an 

 arbour ; the garden-plot was below this, and had its 

 fair alleys, or grass, or gravel. 



The lower terrace may well be twice the width of 

 the upper one, and may be a geometrical garden laid 

 out on turf, if preferred, but far better upon gravel. 

 Here will be collected the choicest flowers in the 

 garden, giving a mass of rich colouring. 



