VARIOUS FLOWER GARDENS. 



hewn out of. this, which forms the walls, for the most part unaided 

 by masonry. Glancing over a balustrading from the castle level 

 on to the terraces beneath, the scene is charming, and we are 

 struck at once with the harmonious blending of the flowers and 

 their surroundings. A happy idea is carried out in regard to colours 

 by the three terraces having each its predominating colour viz. the 

 lowest white, the middle yellow, and the highest purple ; not that 

 other colours are excluded, but these prevailing tones are maintained. 

 A charm of this terrace has been for years a number of trellises, 

 8 feet to 10 feet high, covered with Clematis. Here and there 

 the Flame Nasturtium suspends graceful festoons of brightest colour. 

 Pyramids, Sweet Peas, good perennials and choice annuals are used ; 

 the stiffness of hard lines being quite broken by the Clematis, Roses > 

 Sunflowers, Hollies, Japanese Maples, and Tree Paeonies. The walls 

 of the terrace are covered with Roses, Clematises, Pears, Peaches, 

 Nectarines, Pomegranate, which flowers freely every season, Magnolia, 

 and Wistaria. 



COTEHELE, CORNWALL. This is one of the finest old houses in 

 the west of England, and the quaint old terraces are laid out in old- 

 fashioned beds and borders filled with hardy flowers. Very little 

 masonry is seen in the formation of the terraces, and the old walls 

 are mantled with various creepers, Vines, Myrtle, Clematis, Magnolia, 

 Jasmines, and Ivy. 



The engraving gives a faithful representation of one side of the 

 house, looking east. It is situated on the summit of a high hill on 

 the Cornish side of the river Tamar, with views of its winding course, 

 also of the distant ranges of hills in both Devon and Cornwall. The 

 picturesque freedom of the planting is delightful, the house being 

 prettily covered. 



SHRUBLAND PARK. Shrubland Park, in Suffolk, illustrates the 

 recent history of English flower-gardening, as it was the great bedding- 

 out garden, the " centre " of the system, and which provided many 

 examples for other places in England. The great terrace garden in 

 front of the house was laid out in scrolls and intricate beds, all filled 

 with plants of a few decided colours, principally yellow, white, red, 

 and blue, and edged with Box. In every spot in this garden the 

 same rigid system of set beds was followed, and not a creeper was 

 permitted to ramble over the masonry and stonework of the various 

 terraces. Every bit of Ivy that tried to creep up the walls and 

 cover the stonework had to be removed, to leave the stone in 

 its first bareness. Where some particular colour was wanted in a 

 certain spot, coloured stones were freely used yellow, red, and blue 

 and in the summer, when the hedgerows and meadows are full of 

 flowers, there were no flowers in this large garden to cut for the 



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