The Moelwyn Garden 



white peach-leaved bell-flower, Campanula persicifolia 

 Moerheimi, and cloudy blue Violas. Beyond, through 

 a rose-covered arch, the eye travels on to the lawn, and 

 in the distance to the herbaceous border illustrated 

 opposite page 107. 



The reverse of this view from the dining-room is 

 also illustrated, in which it will be seen that the 

 house is to some extent divided from the garden by 

 a series of arches, on one of which a hybrid of the 

 11 Cherokee " Rose, Sinica anemone, is flowering pro- 

 fusely, as it would always do in such a position, facing 

 almost due south. A glorious mass of Vitis Coignetids 

 also fills this end of the garden with an autumn glow of 

 brilliant foliage. By referring to the plan it will be 

 seen that these Rose arches are placed so that, 

 although they divide a little paved court from the 

 garden, they do not in any way shade the house 

 sufficiently to make the dining-room dull, and that the 

 openings are so arranged that there is an uninterrupted 

 view from the house to the garden. 



To those to whom the idea of a bird-path appeals 

 and it does to most garden-loving people there is a 

 pretty suggestion in the arrangement of one in the 

 illustration. Just a semicircle added to the width 

 of the path, with the line of the border carried nearly 

 round it, and a flowery recess is created in which the 

 bird-path is obviously well placed. 



The rock garden, quite a modest affair as rock gar- 

 dens go, was a development of the idea that the garden 

 as originally arranged was too rigidly square. More- 

 over, a rock garden was desired, and there was really 

 only one place for it, the one chosen. It was created 



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