DESIGN 
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35 feet wide and screened from the tennis 
lawns by the hedge. Here the path is of 
gravel, as there is a good deal of traffic to 
and from the glass-houses to the house. 
Sloping gradually from back to front, the 
borders were, in early August, filled with a 
beautiful selection of perennials, salvias, etc. 
Here much relief from congestion is afforded 
by a spring garden in another place, winding 
its way between trees and terminating in a sunny 
space sheltered from north and east by big 
trees, and where all spring and early summer 
flowers are to be found. 
In many places, fine old-established herbaceous 
borders are to be found in kitchen gardens. 
Culloden House, N.B., has a notable walled 
garden of many acres, where each path, and 
there are a great many, surrounding and inter- 
secting it, is bordered, their length totalling 
up to half a mile when carefully measured. 
Here most of the well-known plants are to be 
found, some of them, such as perennial candy- 
tuft, grown into bushes a yard through. Quite 
a notable feature in late autumn were large 
plants of a fine white and green variegated 
balsam of great beauty of foliage. 
Given a large border, a suitable list of plants, 
good cultivation, and a good aspect (neither 
