This is shut off from the tennis lawn above 

 it by a most effective red brick arcading and 

 fine Italian wrought-iron gates. These 

 gates are more than two centuries old and 

 came from the fine old house of Athel- 

 hampton, in Dorset. The view of the tennis 

 lawn enclosure through the gates and arcad- 

 ing is most attractive. Azara Microphylla, 

 a hardy shrub with dark finely divided ever- 

 green foliage, is here rightly used against the 

 brick pillars and on the south wall by the 

 tennis lawn many fine plants of Romneya 

 Coulteri are flourishing. 



From the bowling green, with its very 

 original arbour, you descend to the grass 

 terrace overlooking the wealth of colour m 

 the lower gardens and with a fine though 

 restricted view of the South Downs : then 

 by more steps to the lower garden immediately 

 under the house. This is a quadrangle with a 

 .sundial resting on a pillar from the balustrade 



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