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House & Garden 
At the right of the house terrace a stone-piered pergola marks' the beginning of the path which 
climbs past one rose-paneled space after another, ,4s summer advances and shade becomes wel¬ 
come, climbing roses form a canopy overhead, while primroses bloom in their shadow 
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A Rose Garden in Surrey that Mounts Through 
Seven Terraces from the House to the Horizon 
Y 
T here is something es¬ 
sentially lyrical about 
this garden in Surrey which 
leaps from one level to 
another through a series of 
seven terraces. On each level, 
from the house terrace to the 
hill-top, there is a paneled 
space set with roses. To give 
variety to one’s progress each 
terrace is given a different de¬ 
sign. And to make the trip 
even more interesting each ter¬ 
race is planted with varieties 
of roses different from those 
•which fill the panels adjoining 
above and below. The terrace' 
at the top, which is not shown 
on the plan, is used as a cut¬ 
ting garden in which all the 
best blooming roses are grown. 
On each side of the garden, 
from top to bottom, a hedge 
of clipped yew serves as a 
background and enclosure 
while a columnar Irish yew 
stands as an accent at the head 
of each flight of steps. It was 
nothing short of an inspira- 
MINGA POPE DURYEA 
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A plan of the garden, drawn here in two separate sections, shows 
six of the seven terraces; each terrace being planted with different 
varieties of roses and paneled in a different design 
tion that the designer of the 
garden should have placed his 
lengthwise path, connecting 
the terraces, along the side. 
The temptation, for the sake 
of a perfectly balanced plan, 
would have been to run it up 
the center, thereby not only 
cutting each paneled terrace in 
two but making it impossible 
to view each separate garden 
as a whole. 
On the first terrace, which 
lies at the house level and is 
set in the center with a tiny 
figure on a tall pedestal, the 
owner of the garden, Mrs. 
Gerard Streatfeild, who was 
also its designer, has used 
but two varieties—Mme. Abel 
Chatenay and Mrsi Wakefield 
Christie-Miller, which she 
considers the most beautiful 
and satisfactory roses in exis¬ 
tence. At the height of their 
long blooming season these 
roses make this lower terrace 
a flash of rosy-salmon. The 
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