28 HOW THE GARDEN WAS MADE 



fence upon which grow climbing roses of all kinds. 

 Beyond this comes a small gardener's path, from 

 which the roses can be pruned and attended to, 

 and further back again a beech hedge gives shelter 

 and colour. However much, therefore, the sea 

 breezes blow, and very turbulent they are at times, 

 there is always quiet and stillness along the wide 

 grass walk. Halfway down the garden, a cart- 

 road known to us as " The Cross Roads " goes 

 across diagonally, and here four large Italian oil- 

 jars, gay with scarlet geraniums, and tall posts 

 festooned with ropes on which are roses make a 

 break in the long lines of border. 



They, with the central grass walk, continue again 

 upon more level ground beyond " The Cross Roads," 

 and here a width of some 12 feet or more gives 

 ample room for flowering shrubs as well as flowers. 

 Then, before they reach the boundary-line of the 

 garden, which consists of an untrimmed willow 

 hedge beside a brook, the two borders open out to 

 form encircling arms round a wide space of grass. 

 A fine October morning is a good moment to choose 

 for wandering beyond the garden, along a stretch of 

 grass-land, to the old bridge. We then look back 

 northwards to Mount Caburn, crowned by its high 

 British encampment, and can see the features of 

 the grounds stretched out, map-like, in front of us. 

 It was from here, as much as from the house itself, 

 that the lines of the terraces were first of all marked 

 out. 



Well do I remember standing on the bridge, and 

 by a previously-arranged signal directing the 

 lime-pit men which way they should heighten or 



