250 A BOOK OF ENGLISH GARDENS 



Street" from an old Roman road that runs along 

 the top. 



Against the Terrace wall pink Roses are planted, 

 climbing along it in graceful trails, growing from 

 a bed of pale mauve Violas. 



The Garden gradually slopes down from this 

 Terrace to a grass Lawn grass as green as that in 

 the Emerald Isle, owing its beauty to the fact that 

 this part of the country has the heaviest rainfall in 

 England. On this Lawn there are to be found 

 borders of different Herbaceous plants, artistically 

 arranged with regard to combinations of colour, 

 such as pale and dark mauve. In the Beds are 

 Monkshood, Larkspur, Wormwood (Artemisia), 

 Phloxes, and dainty Clematis trained quite low to 

 cover the ground with a soft veil of mauve blossoms. 



Though there may be a doubt as to the suitability 

 of gay colour on this Lawn, it must be acknowledged 

 that it has been placed there with great skill, and 

 with a distinctly decorative result. 



Another Terrace wall stands at the edge of this 

 sloping Lawn, hidden by a very handsome Fuchsia 

 hedge. The value and beauty of Fuchsias in a 

 Garden is seldom realised, though they are 

 among the most graceful of plants, with their 

 crimson stems and hanging flowers, called by 

 children "painted manikins." A Fuchsia hedge 

 is quite a possession in any Garden ; and it is a 

 great pity that more are not planted, especially as 



