FLOWER-BORDER AND PERGOLA 201 



along for tending the wall shrubs, and for getting at 

 the back of the border. This little alley does not 

 show from the front. Then the main border, fourteen 

 feet wide and two hundred feet long. About three- 

 quarters of the way along, a path cuts through the 

 border, and passes by an arched gateway in the wall 

 to the Pseony garden and the working garden beyond. 

 Just here I thought it would be well to mound up the 

 , border a little, and plant with groups of Yuccas, so 

 that at aU times of the year there should be something 

 to make a handsome full-stop to the sections of the 

 border, and to glorify the doorway. The two extreme 

 ends of the border are treated in the same way with 

 Yuccas on rather lesser mounds, only leaving space 

 beyond them for the entrance to the little alley at the 

 back. 



The wall and border face two points to the east of 

 south, or, as a sailor would say, south south-east; half- 

 way between south and south-east. In front of the 

 border runs a path seven feet wide, and where the 

 border stops at the eastern end it still rims on another 

 sixty feet, under the pergola, to the open end of a 

 summer-house. The wall at its western end returns 

 forward, square with its length, and hides out green- 

 houses, sheds, and garden yard. The path in front of 

 the border passes through an arch into this yard, but 

 there is no view into the yard, as it is blocked by some 

 Yews planted in a quarter-circle. 



Though waU-space is always precious, I thought it 



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