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111. Hk< >Al> WALK. 



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such as clematis, fuchsia, magnolia, honeysuckle, and 

 ceanothus and brightened by the gay orange flowers ! 

 ; iiiocarpus scaber. 



Beyond the border is a well-kept lawn, with groups 

 of rhododendrons and other evergreen and flowering shrubs 

 on either side, thrown into relief by beautiful trees in 

 the background, while a delightful \v>ijland faces us 

 from which noble Scotch firs lift thfir picturesque branches 

 to the sky. 



Leaving the terrace, and turning to the right, the visitor 



s through an archway in the ivy-clad wall, and finds 



himself in another garden, more attractive, perhaps, than the 





THE RIVER FROM. 



List, where the I >fty r-.\l huck walls are vested with 

 other climbers, and' the borders are filled with a multitude ><: 

 gay and fragrant tl >.vers. The lawn I. ere is broken up by 

 rectangular beds, tilled with roses and \.uious hardy growths. 

 and several fiuit and ornamental trees sh.idow its surface. It 

 is .1 perfect less >M dia vn from .in old b >>!< a> to the method of 

 forming and maintaining in character a truly hngli-h garden. 

 Elsewhere peat-loving plants, such as rhododendrons and 

 a/aleas. are intermix.-.! with man\ ferns in a very (.harming 

 arrangement. But little furth.-r description is necessary. What 

 we find in the gardens ol Him Mouse- is ;i -, -use ..t quiet and 

 ie. There is no attempt to impress by sharp contrasts and 



very brilliant masses of 

 ..ir. It is simply an old 

 r.nglish g.irden, adorned with 

 many of the beautiful things 

 that these days provide, 

 though possessing all the 

 quaintness "t its early time. 

 The garden walls, tor inst.i 

 are mHaNe examples of good 

 ien architecture. Ivlight- 

 ful in their nrigm.il.t\ are 

 t!ie long walls enshrining the 

 cl.issR busts which have been 

 red t... The brick coping 

 adds enrichment, and the 

 wals ;ire divided into spaces 



by buttresses treated as piers, 



and crested by q'i u,\t urns nr 

 other carved linia s. In some 

 pUu . the north front, 



the wall is In* . and the space 

 betwet-n the piers is tilled by 

 an iron grid inetimes 



the wall an.: >g have 



a hollow cir . .U thj 



ends to the piers. 



As m ' nt ^' J in 



such J -I 



