be seen massed against clusters of white Roses or branches of A fine 

 pink Penzance Briar, while below grow Lilies particularly Border 

 fine clumps of chalcedomcum and pardalinum white Daisies, 

 white Fraxinella, Alstroemerias, Campanulas, etc. 



The second picture is of the flower garden which adjoins 

 the walled garden, and so gains on one side a fine red brick 

 buttressed wall. Round the rest of it is a semi-circular Holly 

 hedge, and beyond, giving further shelter, a belt of big trees. 

 Every imaginable flower is growing in this turfed enclosure, 

 and the feast of colour is so great that it is a more enjoyable 

 spot for wandering, and drinking in beauties, than for attempt- 

 ing to paint them. From the start one knows that justice can 

 never be done, and a sketch is no sooner begun than one longs 

 to be at another subject which looks even more tempting. Four 

 large round gardens, set far apart from each other, form the 

 great feature ; all are different, and yet all have in common 

 gigantic posts, twelve or fourteen feet high, placed in a circle, 

 and clothed with Roses to their tops connecting chains 

 festooned with Roses join them to each other, and in some 

 cases to a centre post as well, while others are connected in 

 groups of three by wooden rails. 



The arrangement of the surrounding beds varies too. Here 

 are two circular beds, one within the other, divided by grass 

 paths, the inner bed of Roses, the outer of herbaceous plants 

 there, an encircling bed of herbaceous plants alone, about nine 

 feet wide, full of lovely flowers. Everywhere are clumps of 

 pale blue Delphiniums grouped next golden Alstrcemeria and 

 the feathery spikes of Cimicifuga racemosa, with great shoots of 

 the Rose Alister Stella Grey, or tumbling clusters of Felicite 

 Perpetue as a background ; Campanula lact'iflora is grouped 



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