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shrubs and is bright and cheerful all the year round, 

 and partly because it is the best preparation, according 

 to natural colour law, for the enjoyment of the com- 

 partments on either side. It is supposed that the 

 house is a little way away to the north, with such 

 a garden scheme close to it as may best suit its style 

 and calibre. Then I would have a plantation of 

 shrubs and trees. The shade and solidity of this 

 would rest and refresh the eye and mind, making 

 them the more ready to enjoy the colour garden. 

 Suddenly entering the Gold garden, even on the dullest 

 day, will be like coming into sunshine. Through the 

 shrub-wood there is also a path to right and left 

 parallel to the long axis of the colour garden, with paths 

 turning south at its two ends, joining the ends of the 

 colour-garden paths. This has been taken into account 

 in arranging the sequence of the compartments. 



The hedges that back the borders and form the 

 partitions are for the most part of Yew, grown and 

 clipped to a height of seven feet. But in the case of 

 the Gold garden, where the form is larger and more 

 free than in the others, there is no definite hedge, but 

 a planting of undipped larger gold Hollies, and the 

 beautiful golden Plane, so cut back and regulated 

 as to keep within the desired bounds. This absence 

 of a stiff hedge gives more freedom of aspect and a 

 better cohesion with the shrub-wood. 



In the case of the Grey garden the hedge is of Tama- 

 risk {Tamarix gallica), "whose feathery grey-green is 

 in delightful harmony with the other foliage greys. 

 It will be seen on the plan that where this joins the 



