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to their season. Clematis montana drapes one side wall and hangs as a garland 

 from the lower moulded beam of the timber-framed overhang. The opposite wall 

 is clothed with a vine. The stairways on each side of the tank are punctuated by 

 eight balls of clipped box. The tank itself has a wealth of ferns growing out of its 

 cool, north-facing waU, the water being let in by a finely-designed lion mask, the 

 work of Mr. G. D. Leslie, R.A. (Fig. 42). 



From the lawn a wide turfway leads to another at right angles, beyond which 

 is the main border of hardy flowers, eighteen feet wide and about one hundred and 



eighty feet long (Fig. 46). It 

 is backed by a narrow alley, 

 not seen from the front, but 

 serving conveniently to get at 

 the plants in the back of the 

 border, and those on the other 

 side against a high wall of the 

 local hard sandstone. The 

 border has a definite colour 

 scheme ; at the two ends blue, 

 white and palest yellow, with 

 grey foliage ; and purple, white 

 and pink, also with grey foH- 

 age, respectively ; the colour 

 then advancing from both ends 

 by yellow and orange, to the 

 middle glory of strongest reds. 

 Bold groups of yucca are at 

 the ends, and flank a cross- 

 path that passes by a doorway 

 through the wall (Fig. 47). 

 A plan of the actual planting, 

 and details of some uncommon 

 ways of utilising some of 

 the plants to gain unusual 

 advantages, are given in 

 Miss Jekyll's book, " Colour 

 Schemes in the Flower Gar- 

 den." A special border in the 

 further part of the garden is 

 given entirelj^ to a colour 

 scheme of purple, white and 

 pink, with grey foliage (Figs. 

 48 and 49). It follows, from 

 there having been no exact design for the whole, that the garden falls into separate 

 spaces — an accident that has been used to some advantage by devoting each space 

 to a season. 



The woodland closely adjoins the lawn and garden ground, and much care has 

 been given to the regions where the one melts into the other. From a narrow lawn 

 that is next to the south front of the house a wide grassy way runs straight up into 

 the wood, to a point where, at some distance away, a fine old Scotch fir, double-stemmed 

 and therefore spared when the rest of the wood was cut, ends the view, which is still 



FIG. 51. — ONE OF THE WAYS FROM WOOD TO LAWN. 

 VIEW POINT "g" on general PLAN (fIG. 44). 



