Highmount^ Guildford. 



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The strong calcareous loam is also favourable, and the position in the joints between 

 the stones, giving shelter and protection from wet to the crown of the plant, made 

 it possible to use plants that would otherwise not be hardy. Conspicuously beautiful 

 at Highmount, though so lately planted, is the tender South Italian Campanula 

 isophylla, usually grown in greenhouses and not hardy in the open, though here in 

 rampant growth and fullest health and development. Looking up the double flight 

 of steps from the rose garden across the square tank from C (Fig. 59), a patch of this 

 fine campanula shows on the right ; the same group comes to the left of the picture 

 in the angle view from D (Fig. 61 ) . A further view from E shows another patch on the 



FIG. 65. — THE WEST END OF THE PERGOLA, FROM VIEW POINT "g" ON GENERAL PLAN (FIG. 56). 



face of the wall, with a group of nepeta (the pretty purple catmint) above and the 

 Algerian Iris stylosa at the wall foot (Fig. 62). 



The garden-houses, standing on the north side of the tennis lawn, will, in time, 

 be pleasantly framed by the vines planted on the pergolas which bound and roof the two 

 flights of steps giving access to the tennis lawn from the end of the main pergola and 

 the garden above (Fig. 64) . The building on the right has a nearly fiat roof of corrugated 

 iron, whose unsightliness has been veiled by a coating of earth and a planting of stone- 

 crop's. Above the buildings is the garden of spring flowers, where, besides all the other 

 good things, it is a yearly joy to see the wonderful vigour and bloom of the wall- 

 flowers. All the crucijevcB rejoice in a hmy soil — stocks, wallflowers, iberis, alyssum, 

 cethionema, with others of the same large botanical family, on such a soil are seen 



