The Garden 
that We Made 
ends the park begins ; and 
where the park ends two huge 
gates of wrought iron open on 
to the broad country road. 
The lawn is calculated to 
give a sense of restlulness, 
because of its unity of colour 
and its broad outline, and 
hence it is without any kind 
of llower -bed that might 
Campanula pyramid- 1 • • • i i i i i n ( 
aiis against a back- counteract this impression, except a long' border by the wall ot 
norlhwalL the house, where Campanula pyramidalis , sometimes called 
the Chimney Bell-flower in England, low-growing marigolds, 
and wayward nasturtiums, are edged by a row of tiles. 
On the South Side 
of the Castle. 
On the south side of the castle there is a steep hill 
which drops right down to the Sound. Ten years ago it 
was overgrown with trees, and the first thing we did 
was to fell some ot these — that is, we felled as many as 
we possibly could. Some we were bound to keep for 
the sake of the protection they afforded from the gales. 
In Sweden we call it “hewing down the trees,” and I can 
assure you that it is an art to know the right trees to fell. 
The best method is to single out one tree at the time, 
fell it, and then see what effect the space left by each 
fallen tree has on the landscape as a whole. This slow Musk Mallow has sown 
1 itself on the sloping 
process has its reward, for one 
seldom regrets the loss of any tree. 
Indeed, with us, the improve- 
ment made by the cutting was 
great, since there was such a wealth 
of forest trees. 
Never hesitate to fell a diseased 
tree, nor to hew down one in order 
that its neighbour may get more 
benefit from the soil and thus 
develop better. 
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