NOTE 



SOME of the garden notes on which much of this 

 little book is founded having appeared during the 

 last four years in the Guardian and the Dally Tele- 

 graph, I desire to acknowledge the courtesy of the 

 Editors of those papers with regard to their incor- 

 poration in these pages. 



My warm thanks are also due to Lt.-Colonel 

 Sir Anthony Cope for his permission to use 

 the photographs of Bramshill ; and to Sir William 

 Farrer for those of his famous garden ; to Miss 

 Margaret Waterfield for the use of her beautiful 

 drawing of the Blue Lilies ; and to my friend Mrs. 

 Emmons for allowing the reproduction of Miss 

 Whitehead's picture, now in her possession, of the 

 gate at Tachbrook Mallory. 



ROSE G. KINGSLEY. 



KEYS, EVERSLEY, 

 May 7, 1907. 



