DESIGN 
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hill. What would be the seats of the amphi- 
theatre, are broad brick walls, about 2^ and 3 
feet high, and hollow, at any rate at the top, 
so that plants may grow in them. So that 
you see curving lines at different heights, and 
each plant is grown thereon for its scent 
alone. As you descend the wide and shallow 
steps, you brush against such sweet things as 
rosemary, verbena, bergamot, lavender, lemon- 
thyme, and lemon grass, myrtle and allspice, 
and delicious waves of spicy fragrance are set 
free and fill the air. 
In the same garden the herbaceous plants 
are not in formal borders, possibly owing to 
the contour of the ground, which is hilly. 
Here a pergola, covered with vines, leads by 
means of a succession of steps and small ter- 
races to a point where you look out on to a 
large round garden, with sloping sides, entirely 
filled with flowers, perennials and annuals. 
One immense bed is in the centre, and from 
it other beds radiate with paths and cross- 
paths, the beds gradually spreading up the 
hillside. Here can be found pretty nearly 
every variety of perennial, together with such 
annuals as mallows, corn marigolds, coreopsis, 
cornflowers, Shirley poppies, and dahlias. The 
brilliance of the picture presented, after leaving 
