NOVEMBER 197 



and a woodwork trellis of faded green 

 between each. The trellis is heavily over- 

 grown with great masses of ivy and 

 honeysuckle white honeysuckle just 

 now in richest bloom and fragrance and 

 is partly hidden by the wild growth of a 

 neglected shrubbery border where tall 

 white campanula and Aaron's rod, 

 Solomon's seal, and weedy Turk's cap 

 lilies, struggle to the light through a 

 wilderness of guelder rose and spindle, 

 and holly and gean trees. 



Pushing open the door, between the 

 heavy granite door posts quite over- 

 canopied with honeysuckle, and with the 

 gooseberry and raspberry and snow- 

 berry, that for many a year have seeded 

 and grown up in unheeded luxuriance 

 from every cranny in the stones the plan 

 of the garden is disclosed at once. It 

 is very simple : a long straight walk 

 between borders of turf and flowers and 

 two hedges of cotoneaster, leading up to 

 a green door at the other end ; a walk 

 all round, and four cross walks. After 

 the true old Scotch st) 7 le, each walk is 



