288 A BOOK OF ENGLISH GARDENS 



Garden in the county of Surrey, lying, walled in, 

 between three roads. 



It is interesting to pass from Gardens which 

 have existed (in some shape) for hundreds of 

 years to one which, as far as age is concerned, 

 might be said to be still in swaddling clothes. 

 Delightful to find that its youth is no barrier to its 

 holding its own in beauty of design and originality 

 of thought, a cheering discovery in these days so 

 lacking in both. 



This Garden belongs to an artist in the highest 

 sense of the word, and is one in which hours, days, 

 and months could be spent among its beauties. 

 Every moment leads to the discovery of a new 

 colour effect or audacious colour contrast, the 

 whole delicately harmonising against a dark foliage 

 background. 



Rough stone terrace steps, edged with cut shrubs, 

 a little hedge, and groups of grand Lilium auratum, 

 lead down from the yellow stone-built House across 

 a Lawn to a beautiful Herbaceous Border, as care- 

 fully planted with flowers as a painter arranges 

 colour on his canvas ; " not dropped down in lifeless 

 dabs as he has them on the palette," but placed 

 with " forethought and deliberation." The wild 

 grace of Nature allied to the controlling influence 

 of Art produces in this border an exquisite com- 

 bination of colour, showing the amazingly beautiful 

 result obtainable by skilled eyes and clever hands. 



