Mouse iff Garden 
by the south wing of the chateau, or one 
may descend to "The Pergola which extends 
along the outside of the retaining wall of the 
terrace. There under the covering of vines 
and open timbers, busts upon games are 
placed at intervals, close against a background 
of dense verdure. The spacious south terrace 
contains the bowling-green, and the effect of 
that great square of unbroken turf is very 
pleasing. The terrace is surrounded by a 
parapet, and there are broad walks enclosing 
the green. On the edges of the sward are sev¬ 
eral pieces of sculpture and great vases con¬ 
taining clipped shrubs or palms. In the farther 
angle of the terrace is a small pavilion, from 
which one looks into the deer park and away 
across the forest and the billowy hilltops to the 
Blue Mountains. The site is most admirably 
chosen and commands broad and beautiful 
views sweeping almost round the compass. 
Within the enclosure of the walled garden 
are the intimacy with beauty and sense of 
separation and privacy which touch the hearts 
of garden lovers. Here are dwarf fruit 
trees trained against the sunny face of stone 
walls, pleasant walks bordered with shrubs 
and flowers or espaliered fruit looking down 
into the sunken garden. Here are terraced 
arrangements, giving background for plant 
forms against retaining walls. Here also are 
squared compartments of small fruits, framed 
by inviting walks. And down the middle 
of the sunken area runs the trellised arbor 
with seats where one may rest beneath the 
dappled shadows of vines. Here and there 
a border of box and shrub, used for their form 
and color, show the loving hand of art. It is 
a pleasant place, where one wanders happily, 
making friends with plant life whose beauty 
is more lovable by the sense of a beneficent 
utility. 
In this walled enclosure at Biltmore there 
is none of the ennui majestueux by which 
Viollet-le-Duc characterized the later Renais- 
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