The Garden Magazine, October, 1919 



99 



in the wall one passes to unexpected 

 stone steps banked on either c side 

 by well placed shrubbery. These 

 lead gently down the hill to a 

 level space of grassland which 

 stretches away until it actually 

 meets the sandy beach! Could a 

 more charming combination be im- 

 agined? Truly the slave of old 

 chose a wondrously favored spot 

 for his garden; and it is well that 

 "Pompey's Garden" it still re- 

 mains. 



STONEWORK OF UNUSUAL CHARM 



Wall, seat, and pavement are conceived in 

 such a sympathetic spirit and executed with 

 such feeling and discretion that there is no 

 sense of interrupting Nature in even the 

 slightest degree — which is the rarest of ac- 

 complishments where such rigorous inter- 

 ruption occurs 



BANKED WITH GREEN LIKE AN AMPHITHEATRE IS THE HEART OF THE GARDEN 



But the game of the small arena is nothing fiercer than a bronze 

 urchin's pranks with a turtle, at which the flowers nod perceptibly 



