H ouse and Garden 
PERGOI.A AT WESTWICK PARK, NEAR NORWICH 
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the owner after travels in Italy and are the only 
rustic pergolas I have ever seen which were built 
high enough and wide enough to allow air and sun¬ 
light under them. Everything blooms here; phloxes, 
sweet peas, lilies of every kind, pinks, and most of 
the herbaceous and hardy things. The pillars 
have several kinds of creepers, clematis, the ‘seven 
sisters’ variety of roses, gloire-de-Dijon, and in fact 
all hardy kinds hang down in masses of white, pink 
and yellow, with here and there a deep purple patch 
of the clematis. I am tremendously interested in 
pergolas, and to see one built as it should be is de¬ 
lightful to me.” 
Referring to the pastels she has done of interiors, 
(in which she is quite as successful as in her garden 
bits,) she said, “I began to do interiors also quite by 
chance and I only do sketches of them. A friend 
who was giving up her house in London to go and 
live in the country, wished to keep a memento of a 
small private prayer room or chapel she had built 
on the birth of a little daughter. It had a lovely 
light colored stained glass window and made such a 
pretty sketch that I was asked to do many others.” 
The freshness of color and the excellent drawing 
ing there to paint a portrait and was fascinated by 
the beautiful old kitchen garden with its herbaceous 
borders and hedges of lavender. Sutton is a Henry 
VII. house and the garden is very, very old. One 
walk is called ‘Queen Elizabeth Walk.’ It has a 
southern wall and magnificent roses grow there.” 
A h-t of this rose garden is shown in one of the re¬ 
produced portraits. The broad treatment of these 
sketches is only realized upon closest examination. 
When asked about her handling of these. Miss 
Carlisle said, ‘‘The right values must come, I think, 
because I never retouch a sketch, but begin and 
finish it at one sitting. If a failure, it is torn up at 
once. I think the essential of success is rapid work, 
while the shadows remain about the same size. My 
sketches are done early in the morning or late 
in the afternoon; sunny days for a preference, as 
flowers then show such lovely masses of light and 
shade. ” 
Speaking of pergolas, and the pergola in particular 
which is shown in the picture, she said, “This one 
has only been built about twenty years and is in a 
garden at Westwick Park near Norwich, Norfolk. 
There are two of these and they were designed by 
