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believe that the garden has ever been through 

 such an ordeal. 



Over the fence against the gate, Crimson 

 Rambler makes a brilliant background to the 

 brown shoots and fawn-coloured flowers of a 

 huge mass of Reve cTOr. Beyond them the 

 crimson Longworth Rambler, flinging itself up 

 into a Furze bush, and orange, crimson, and 

 shell-pink standards of William Allen Richard- 

 son, Duke of Edinburgh, and Caroline Testout, 

 show well against a bush of Syringa backed 

 by Furze and Broom and covered with white 

 flowers as sweet and lovely as the orange 

 blossom it mocks ; while the border below is 

 bright with Tea Roses just coming into bloom 

 and an edging of mauve Viola. Further down 

 the long border, the Penzance Sweet-briars are 

 in glorious bloom above a fringe of white 

 Pinks. One bush of Anne of Geierstein is a 

 picture a solid mass of green nine feet high 

 and five feet through, covered with hundreds 

 of brilliant crimson flowers with vivid golden 

 anthers. Farther on, Flora Mclvor and a 

 huge old pink Dog Rose in the hedge have 



