that forms the subject of the picture, and is enfiladed by the middle 

 windows of the house. In the left hand division is a long rectangular 

 pool with rather steep-angled sides of grass, looking a Httle dangerous. 

 There is a reason here for the water being a good way below the level of 

 the lawn, for this is much above that of the ground floor of the house ; 

 still it is a matter of doubt whether it would not have been better to have 

 had a flagged or bricked path some four feet wide, not much above the 

 water-level, with steps rising on two sides to the lawn, and dry walling, 

 allowing of some delightful planting, from the path to the lawn level. 



On the two outer sides of the garden, parallel with the middle walk, 

 are raised terraces, reached by steps at the ends of the bricked path. 

 These have walls on their outer sides, and towards the garden, yew hedges 

 kept low so that it is easy to see over. These low hedges run into a 

 much higher and older one that connects them towards the upper end 

 of the garden. 



The clipped yews which give the garden its character are for the 

 most part of one pattern, a tall three-sided pyramid, only varied by some 

 tall cones. One cannot help observing how desirable it is in gardens of 

 this kind that the form of the clipped yews should for the most part keep 

 to one shape, or at any rate one general pattern, just as the architecture, 

 whatever its character or ornament, within some kind of limit remains 

 faithful to the dominant idea. 



The picture shows a double flower-border in August dress ; good 

 groups of the best hardy plants combining happily with some of the 

 pyramids of yew. To the right is the fine summer Daisy {Chrysanthe- 

 mum maximum)^ with the lilac Erigeron and the spiky blue-purple balls 

 of the Globe Thistle, the tall double Rudbeckia Golden Glow, Lavender, 

 Poppies and Phlox. To the left, Phloxes and the tall Evening Primrose, 

 the great garden Tansy [Achillea Eupatorium), seed-heads of the Del- 

 phiniums that bloomed a month ago, White Mallow, and the grand red- 

 ringed Sweet-William called Holborn Glory. Everything speaks of 

 good cultivation on a rich loamy soil, for those fine yews want plenty of 

 nutriment themselves, and would also be apt to rob their less robust 

 neighbours. But then the good gardener knows how to provide for this. 

 There is always an opportunity for beautiful treatment, when, as in 



