262 EVERSLEY GARDENS 



Desprez : but the severe cold of that Winter 

 killed it to our lasting sorrow, for it had been 

 our pride and glory, and its place was taken by 

 hardier creepers. Over the glass porch of the 

 front door Clematis Jackmanni, the white cluster 

 Rose Felicite Perpjtufo, and Pyrus Japonica were 

 woven in lovely confusion. The Pyrus still 

 exists ; and its scarlet flowers still go, as in old 

 days, to help to decorate the church at Easter. 



Rhododendrons loved the peat that could be 

 had for the carting from the bogs just beyond 

 the Mount. They grew luxuriantly ; and the 

 neighbours always came to see the Rector's 

 garden when the big beds on either side of the 

 front gate were in blossom. At the end of the 

 Study Garden, between these beds and the 

 stable-yard, was a little Rose garden, a choice 

 and sheltered retreat, with a pink Thorn in one 

 corner near the gate, and pillar Roses at the 

 back of the border. And in one of the big 

 bushes that shut it off from the drive a black- 

 cap built year after year, to my father's extreme 

 delight, so tame that we could watch his little 

 throat as the enchanting notes of his song rose 



