Highmount^ Guildford. 



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curve of high retaining wall also gives shelter from any wind coming from a 

 westerly direction. As will be seen in the general plan (Fig. 56), this encloses a lily 

 tank and encircling rose-beds (Fig. 55) ; the rose-beds are continued as straight 

 borders on either side along the whole length ; the quiet middle green space is 

 broken only by the square tank midway of the whole (Fig. 59). The eastern end 



has a flight of circular steps 

 with a bold half-round paving 

 at the foot (Fig. 57). This, 

 with the pergola, garden-houses 

 and their accompanying flights 

 of steps on some of the upper 

 levels, is the work of Mr. 

 Douglas Round. Thus the 

 rose garden is a long, level 

 green parallelogram, quiet and 

 restful, where before was 

 only tumbled and disordered 

 futility. 



At the western end, back- 

 ing the lily tank and rose- 

 beds, the circular retaining 

 wall is from six to seven feet 

 high. The top is rather 

 boldly planted with yuccas, 

 the great Euphorbia Wulfenii, 

 cistus, tamarisk and tree lupine, 

 and, further back, with tree 

 box, white broom and red cedar 

 (Fig. 58). Barely two years 

 planted, the whole is as yet 

 too immature to show any- 

 thing like the ultimate inten- 

 tion. Facing uphill across the 

 tank one looks up a series of 

 steps, rising flight after flight 

 (Fig. 55). The two lowest, with 

 a landing between, rise to a 

 broad turf path between flower 

 borders, running eastward to 

 the tennis lawn and giving a 

 long green vista of over three 

 hundred feet, with again the 

 feeling of reposeful space and 

 security that had formerly been 

 wanting. The whole length of 

 the rose garden has its six-foot-high retaining wall planted ; not planted all over, 

 but enough to display a number of beautiful things in suitable groups, the 

 same plants being carried up on the top of the wall, where there is a space of four feet 

 between the wall top and the hedge of tree box that surrounds the tennis lawn at the 

 eastern end. The same space is also between the top of the wall and the shrubs 



FIG. 62.— CAMPANULA ISOPHYLLA ALBA, IN THE DRY WALL, 

 FROM VIEW POINT "e" ON GENERAL PLAN (FIG. 56). 



