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feelings of kindly reverence the unknown domains 

 of the other's higher knowledge. By the gardener 

 is not meant the resident servant, but the person, 

 whoever it may be, who works with or directly 

 after the architect in planning the planting. 



The terraces just described have so little of special 

 architectural design that they may be considered as 

 belonging entirely to the garden, so that there is no 

 reason why they may not be treated with absolute 

 freedom. 



One of the careful gardener's duties is to watch, 

 not the growth only, but the overgrowth of plants, 

 trees, and shrubs. In many a garden some over- 

 growth of shrub or tree may be of the highest 

 pictorial value. Sometimes wild plants will come in 

 stonework and come just right, or seeds of garden 

 plants will find lodgment in a crack or joint of 

 masonry, and provide some new or attractive feature 

 that had never been thought of. Often Ferns and 

 small wild things will grow in the joints of walls and 

 steps on any cool exposure. It is well worth while 

 to notice the willingness of plants to grow in such 

 places, and to encourage or restrain as may be need- 

 ful. In the wide stone steps of the Gloucestershire 

 house with the pedimented doorway are some seed- 

 ling plants of several ages of the handsome white 

 Chimney Campanula {C. pyramidalis) ; it also grows 

 spontaneously in the wall of a shallow area to the 

 basement of the same building. In these steps the 

 growth of this and other plants has been encouraged. 

 They are perhaps rather more scattered all over the 



