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about fourteen miles away. Still more to the right Wolmer Forest appears as a bluish 

 haze ; nearer in the same direction are the woods in the region of Waverley Abbey, 

 and, close at hand, the valley of the Wey, backed by the ruined Chapel of St. Catherine 

 on its steep hill of sand and rock. 



The garden ground, all on the southern face of the hill, but so near the top 

 that it is greatly exposed, had already been laid out to a certain degree when 

 the garden designer took it in hand. Tennis lawn, croquet lawn and bowling 

 green had been levelled and made; but the steepness of the remainder, 

 composed of grassy slopes between clumps of shrubs and flowers of no 

 particular design, was found to be incommodious, and great need was . felt for 



FIG. 57.— STEPS AND PAVEMENT AT THE EAST END OF ROSE GARDEN. 



GENERAL PLAN (fIG. 56). 



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somethmg more restful and systematic. It was evident that nothing satisfactory 

 could be done without a serious amount of moving of earth. The ground lay in 

 humps and hollows too blunt and shapeless in form to be utilised as they were and yet 

 with sides so -steep that foothold was precarious and all progression uncomfortable 

 Happily, the owners were willing to face the necessary outlay, by no means a shght 

 one ; for digging m pure chalk is almost as serious a matter as quarrying in stone 

 and m places it was necessary to go eight feet into the sohd, and also to find means 

 of disposal of the waste stuff excavated. This was tipped all along the lowest of the 

 ground to form a firm embankment for the rose garden. It was found just possible 

 to get a width of fifty-five feet and a length of two hundred and eighty feet so that 



