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HERBACEOUS GARDEN 
is filled with paeonies, both single and double, 
and this one faces south-west. Michaelmas 
daisies in about fifteen varieties of pink, white, 
crimson, mauve, and purple fill another, while 
the last is all in Japanese anemones, in white 
varieties only. Most of these borders are 
filled with bulbs of all kinds that die down 
in good time, and whose withered foliage 
is hidden by the growing plants as they 
spring up. 
Plan C. 
Another and less expensive small garden 
was laid out as follows, and has been so laid 
out for the last three hundred years. It was 
a sunny, oblong garden with an immense holly 
hedge on each side, and slightly sloping to the 
south. Along the holly hedges, which were 
on banks sloping to the garden, were wide 
borders of herbaceous plants. The centre of 
the oblong was gravelled, and was a maze of 
small beds in different simple shapes, each 
bordered with clipped box standing a foot 
