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of a very different type. A gatehouse in 
weather-worn grey oak, with thatched roof, a 
wide gate through which one sees stretching 
away for about a hundred yards a velvety 
grass walk with great borders on either hand 
— -borders where the colours are so harmoni- 
ously and judiciously blended that each only 
serves to enhance the next ; where the sulphur 
toad-flax is planted in sufficient quantity to 
balance the vivid blue of a larkspur, and where 
the eye is led past cool grey breadths of 
Artemisia, and the delicate silvery mauve 
Galega rising from a sea of Shirley poppies, 
to more brilliant tones. 
Another mind-picture comes to one of an 
old garden by the Thames, to which leads a 
covered way of Seven Sister roses, mingled with 
emerald, heart-shaped leaves of Aristolochia, 
while grassy paths lead on, through lines of 
larkspurs and tall white lilies, tangles of roses, 
and delicately scented tree-lupins, to archways 
in the old brick walls. These round archways, 
the bricks mellowed by time and softened by 
grey and yellow lichens, lead into three enclosed 
gardens. The first and smallest is all flowers, 
little lawns, and old apple trees. In the shade 
of a high north wall, where nothing else will 
grow, is a thicket of Heracleum, its 15 feet 
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