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HERBACEOUS GARDEN 
the cool depths of the pergola, makes a very 
striking and pleasing contrast. 
A small attractive Elizabethan garden is 
being constructed now, with little raised square 
beds, and a brick welkin the centre, the whole 
thing wonderfully carried out from a very 
slight design in an illustrated manuscript 
owned by Sir Frank Crisp, Friar Park, 
Henley. His Alpine garden so rivets the 
attention of visitors that, as a rule, these other 
gardens, gems in their way, are crowded out 
for want of, not space, but time. 
Two beautiful stone-paved gardens are those 
respectively of Mrs Cornwallis- West and the 
late Mr G. F. Watts, R.A. 
In each case a small farmyard has been 
converted into a flower-garden, flagged with 
grey stones, and small and ancient bricks. In 
the one, old millstones have been let into the 
paths, surrounded by cut bricks on edge, and 
on the old stone walls is a riot of roses — Car- 
mine Pillar, Gloire de Dijon, and favourites, 
old and new, in the greatest profusion. 
Naturally, the soil is rich enough to promote 
rampant growth, while the sunny situation of 
each ensures well-ripened wood and masses of 
bloom. 
In strong contrast to these rises a picture 
