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HERBACEOUS GARDEN 
backed by rose-coloured mallows (Lavatera). 
The glow of pink used to have the effect of 
taking away one’s breath as one came un- 
expectedly on it. 
It may be argued that there is too much 
sameness about a garden of one colour ; but if 
there is plenty of variety in other ways in the 
garden, surely a portion of it need not be 
grudged for what will prove, in the end, a 
very interesting picture, and one that will 
well reward its owner, if the praise that is 
given by visitors pleases. 
A small enclosure of well-kept turf, with a 
hedge of yew (with cut arches) on two sides, 
a square trellis of oak (also with an archway 
in it) on the third, and a low retaining wall 
of grey stone, with shallow stone steps leading 
up to a small grass terrace on the fourth, is 
taken as an example of a garden carrying out 
a scheme of mauve, purple, and grey. It 
divides two large lawns, fringed with fine 
trees, from each other, and has in the centre 
an old stone sundial standing in a ring of 
pavement, with round stones let in at intervals, 
and a path of flagged stones leading across the 
turf to the steps. 
The four sides have narrow borders running 
at the foot of the yew hedges and trellis. 
