GENEROUS FELLOW- WORKERS 35 



wing upon the weather side, we sleep peacefully 

 whilst only the distant sound of anger in the gale 

 reminds us of past times. 



Many of those friends, both men and women 

 fellow- workers who gave such devoted, generous 

 assistance during times of discouragement, have 

 passed to other spheres of helpfulness. Theirs was 

 indeed a hard fight, because insect pests, weather 

 elements, and limited outlay were all added to the 

 difficulties of educational work. They are never 

 forgotten, however, by me and the Sussex garden 

 to which they gave such valuable advice and 

 unstinted sacrifice of time, and each success that 

 is due to them is recorded as such and gratefully 

 acknowledged. 



Each year new terrace gardens have been made, 

 in order to show students how to exercise their 

 powers of imagination. The Italian hillside vine- 

 yards were models for gaining level pieces of ground 

 which would hold water and prevent it running 

 away to the bottom of the garden. We have 

 endeavoured to copy somewhat the colour of the 

 olives by planting ilexes and other soft grey-green 

 shrubs, whilst logan berries, ampelopsis and other 

 climbers are set between on tripods and their long 

 branches trained to form festoons in different 

 directions. Then, to prevent the sun from scorch- 

 ing down too fiercely and making great yawning 

 cracks in the earth, all spare ground is carpeted 

 with Alpines. The spring is the best time to see 

 the terrace gardens, for they are blue with forget- 

 me-nots interspersed with yellow sheets of alyssum, 

 and from amongst these rise narcissus, tulips, and 



