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the terrace lead down to a second and smaller 
terrace on which grows the tulip tree above 
mentioned, and on which it is proposed to 
place a tank or pool for growing lotus and 
water-lilies fed by the overflow from the 
fountain on the upper terrace. Two other 
flights of steps continue down from this 
second level to the parterre, which has a 
grass-plot in the center and a wide border 
all around it. In a semicircular bay at the 
end is a sun-dial. 
A cross path leads to the rose garden on 
the west, where a central bed is surrounded 
by wide borders, and all is enclosed by a 
trellis of grape vines, thus combining beauty 
with utility. A gate at the end of this path 
conducts one to the tennis court and thence 
into the meadow. On the east the path 
leads across another terrace with borders, 
through a little grove of peaches, to the 
kitchen garden. 
The parterre is surrounded by a hedge of 
Japanese holly, but this, like the spruce 
hedge in the forecourt, is still in its infancy, 
the garden having only been commenced in 
May, i 899. The parterre was laid out in the 
autumn of that year and the rose garden 
added in 1900. The circular rose bed is sur¬ 
rounded by osier arches of climbing roses, and 
the four cross paths leading to it pass under 
arbors of the same material. In planting this 
garden, large use has been made of flowering 
shrubs of the more refined types and hardy 
herbaceous flowers in masses. Bulbs in the 
spring, and lilies and Japanese iris later in 
the year, increase a variety of color which is 
otherwise provided for by annuals planted 
here and there among the perennials. 
The bank which slopes from the terrace 
wall to the rose garden is the only piece of 
the native hillside left within the formal pre¬ 
cinct. Here the rock which crops out is 
wreathed with honeysuckle and Japanese 
rose, among which native lilies, foxgloves, 
acanthus and sunflowers raise their heads. 
Here, too, are blossoming shrubs—Philadel¬ 
phia, magnolias, clethra, almonds and the 
like. 
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