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charming effect. Streptosolen Jamesonii, Rhynchospermum, 

 Lasiandra and Plumbago are also at home here. In the 

 western sunk garden blue and white are the colours chosen, 

 the plants used being white Geraniums and that most useful 

 viola, Maggie Mott, and Ageratum. Visitors to Bagshot Park 

 will notice that only two colours are planted in the several 

 gardens where possible, so on this terrace all twelve vases have, 

 in summer, pink Geraniums, whilst the eight vases in the 

 balustrading on the semicircular terrace just below are filled 

 with crimson, Fuchsias being the plants selected. Two separate 

 flights of steps lead to the Italian Garden on the lower terrace. 

 The colours here in summer are crimson Geraniums and 

 white. In the centre is a circular basin with a small fountain. 

 The best varieties of Nymphsa Marliacea look very happy in 

 this small but sunny pool. 



From the centre of the balustrade broad steps of dignified 

 design and masterly construction descend to the lawn below. 

 On either side of the steps, under the terrace wall, are her- 

 baceous borders. The walls are covered with good forms of 

 mauve and white Wistaria in alternate colours, the original 

 plants having been brought from Japan by Their Royal High- 

 nesses the Duke and Duchess of Connaught in 1888, They 

 never fail to flower in their season with the greatest possible 

 freedom. From here a broad gravel walk at an agreeable 

 gradient runs across the sward. It is flanked with stone-colour 

 terra-cotta vases 2 feet 6 inches high, resembling huge flower- 

 pots. They were designed at the Guild of Art Potteries, 

 Compton, Surrey. The walk leads to the Tennis Court, of 

 about 90 yards by 70 in extent, enclosed on three sides with 

 clipped Yews but open to the terrace on the fourth. Around 

 this large enclosure runs a stone slab path, 6 feet from the 

 Yews on the inside. In the spaces between are ribbon borders 

 of old-fashioned flowers, and to break the uniform appearance 

 of the clipped Yews, on either side are wide open entrances to 

 the courts. These openings are flanked by four more large 

 terra-cotta pots filled with salmon pink Geraniums. The end 

 Yews between the pots are left to grow tall and are clipped 



