150 A GARDEN DIARY 
Marcu 26, 1900 
VIEW, a brand-new view, and in a garden 
supposed to be viewless! That our best 
point as regards scenery lies in the direction of 
the Dorking downs, is I think beyond question. 
The worst of it is that lying as they do nearly 
due north of us, the more of them we show the 
more the wind catches at our plants. Openings 
upon this side have, consequently, to be thought 
out with care, and executed only after long de- 
liberation. 
This time I think we are safe. -A space of 
copse, ending in a fence, over which in summer 
tree-lupins and everlasting peas tumble together 
in friendly confusion, has been cleared. What 
was lately solid copse, fifteen to twenty feet high, 
has sunk to a mere russet-coloured growth, just 
bracken height, no more; three feet to four 
feet, that is to say, rising occasionally to five. 
This makes a broadish space, in which bracken 
and bramble, stunted elder, seedling birch, two or 
three low thorns, and some wild guelder-roses 
