ii4 THE ART AND PRACTICE OF LANDSCAPE GARDENING. 



altte enclosed by a holly hedge, with a group of statuary at the 

 lower end, and recessed spaces for seats at regular intervals in 

 the sides. A small lake, wherein bright waterfowl may disport them- 

 selves among several kinds of aquatic plants, has been formed in 

 the south-eastern part of the pleasure gardens. The end of the lake 

 is left unplanted, and the view is thus extended over the park past 

 an old red-tiled mill to the distant hills. Around the lake, and below 

 the terrace generally, the area has been treated in the natural 

 manner. The ground has been undulated, grassy valleys have been 

 formed between raised mounds planted with varied flowering trees 

 and shrubs, or with single trees, so that a play of light and shade 

 is secured. The walks have been undulated in plan as well as 

 level, and the different parts of the garden are hidden and separated 

 to such an extent that the whole cannot be seen at once, and the 

 former plain field-look has been entirely removed. At the same 

 time a feeling of rest has been made to pervade the whole treat- 

 ment which is consonant with the stately building, the home of an 

 old English family. On the south-western side a principal attraction 

 is the rose garden, in which different kinds of roses are planted 

 in separate masses. It is made in a spiral form, with the walk 

 gradually descending towards the centre, so that the beds of roses 

 are all on a slight slope facing the spectator. This position is much 

 shut off by planting, and quite hidden from a contiguous walk that 

 leads more directly towards a covered seat. This is placed at the 

 extremity of the principal walk made from this point, through the 

 centre of the kitchen garden, to the middle of the range of hothouses. 

 A row of standard hollies has been planted on each side of the walk 

 till the kitchen garden is reached, when a line of espalier fencing, 

 along which horizontally trained trees have been planted, borders 

 the walk. In the centre of the kitchen garden is an old dwarfed 

 oak, round which the walk circles, and other walks are made 



