The Culmination of Spring 



Enfield Market Cross dismissed from the market-place 

 to make way for a King Edward VII Coronation Memorial. 

 After a year or two of unhonoured repose in a builder's 

 yard it came here for a quiet time among the roses, and 

 makes a splendid support and background for that lovely 

 single-flowered climber Rosa laemgata Anemone. The 

 protection suits its habits and the grey of the old stones its 

 complexion, and in the end of May and onwards it is a 

 fine sight flinging its long growths through and over the 

 arches of the old cross, and bearing hundreds of the glori- 

 ous pink flowers as large as teacup saucers. It has now 

 pushed its growths through to the north side, and as the 

 last winter was so mild they bore as many and as fine 

 blooms as those on the south side. A pergola of wooden 

 poles and cross-pieces runs down at right angles to the 

 wall, and divides this Rose Garden from another parallelo- 

 gram of garden with stone-flagged paths, and an octagonal 

 piece of black and white pavement round a sundial some- 

 where about its centre. A second and smaller pergola, 

 devoted to Vines, divides its upper half at right angles to 

 and leading out of the great pergola, and a flagged path 

 leads on from the sundial across this Vine pergola up to a 

 seat and an old stone pedestal and vase. You must come 

 close to this, please, to admire the shower of lilac blossoms 

 of a Solanum crispum that sprawls all over the Privet 

 bushes that cut off the north wind, and hangs down over 

 the pedestal. It is the deeper-coloured one known as the 

 Glasnevin variety, and though it was cut to the ground 

 here one winter has now made a trunk worthy of some 

 tree, and I hope may never suffer so badly again, for every 

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