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expense, in making at Norman Tower a perfect model of all 

 that is best in garden practice in the past, and all that horti- 

 cultural art and science can effect in the present. The 

 garden is richly embellished with many interesting objects in 

 wood, stone and metal. Among them may be mentioned a 

 beautiful sundial in a clear space on the south lawn, two or 

 three exquisite little fountains, a pergola, bowers of rose and 

 clematis on light iron framework, and many arbours and 

 sheltered seats, no two of which are quite alike, but all 

 equally well adapted to their special use and position. All 

 or nearly all of these features have been designed by and 

 constructed under the direction of Mr. Nutt, the resident 

 architect of Windsor Castle. The introduction of so many 

 architectural adornments as are to be seen here would be out 

 of place, or excessive, in a garden with ordinary landscape 

 surroundings, but in this they are exactly right. Because the 

 view here comprises, in every direction, the severe lines and 

 forms of towers, battlements and stone walls, and unless 

 many features to give a sort of architectural feeling were 

 included, the garden could not be said to fulfil one of the 

 most important motives in all garden design, namely, that it 

 should be in complete harmony with its external environment. 

 The garden on the hill below Round Tower is unique 

 not only in its position and surroundings, but also in the 

 originality of design which has been forced upon it by them, 

 and by its shape and form. In plan it roughly follows the 

 outline of a crescent, of which the outer curve corresponds 

 with a boundary wall lining the old moat, and the inner 

 with a rampart-wall at the foot of Round Tower. But the 

 peculiarity of the garden's plan is more than equalled by the 

 astonishing diversity of its levels. Its highest point must be 

 fully ninety feet above the lowest, and only a small portion of 

 the lawn in the bottom of the garden shows a really level 

 surface. All the rest is more or less hilly, and in parts even 

 precipitous. It is difficult to give an idea of the configuration 

 of the ground to any one who has not seen it. Perhaps the 

 best way to suggest its form is to compare it with familiar 



