Book of Gardens 



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On either side of 

 the pergola steps are 

 large clipped bay 

 trees. The border 

 planting under the 

 wall includes bright 

 poppies and stately 

 lilies, primroses and 

 Solomon 's Seal, 

 peonies and iris, 

 with spireas and tall 

 roses against the 

 wall and climbing 

 roses above. 



The formality of 

 the garden is ac- 

 counted for by pyra- 

 midal box specimens 

 placed at regular in- 

 tervals along the 

 edge of the middle 



path and the box by which the beds are bor- 

 dered. In the beds are all the well-loved 

 perennials and some annuals — delphinium and 

 digitalis. Campanula, iris, daisies, snap- 

 dragons, peonies, poppies, feverfew, heliotrope. 

 Phlox, that splendid color contribution to any 



garden, has been judiciously and effectively 

 used in various shades of pink and white. 



This is a walled garden, the forest at the 

 upper side being cut off by a high retaining 

 wall covered with vines and apple trees on 

 espaliers. Beneath the walls are hollyhocks. 



small roses, iris and 

 buddleia. The low- 

 er wall of the garden 

 is not so high be- 



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stretches down to 



the sea. 



Bisecting the gar- 

 den are two paths, at 

 the end of which are 

 pretty garden orna- 

 ments — bird baths 

 and satyrs looking 

 out from a bower of 

 roses, an old stone 

 well-head, and 

 benches set in shady, 

 secluded corners 

 among tine plantings 

 of rhododendrons and grapevines. 



The sea beyond, the rock-riblsed hills behind; 

 inside these walls, comfortable formality, soft 

 grass paths, touches of statuary, a lily pool 

 mirroring the sky and color from early spring 

 to the first frost of autumn. 



