168 A BOOK OF ENGLISH GARDENS 



And again : 



"At Spring (for the Summer) sewe Garden ye shall 

 At harvest (for Winter) or sowe not at all 

 Oft digging and remooving and weeding (ye see) 

 Makes herbe the more holesome and greater to be." 



The Cottage Garden pictured is to be found in 

 the Isle of Wight, and belongs to an old lady 

 who has lived there for forty years, doing all the 

 village washing, and bringing up a large family on 

 the money thus earned. The Fuchsia tree, growing 

 as high as the bedroom windows, was planted by 

 her when she first came to the cottage ; and the 

 Japanese Honeysuckle is also stricken in years, 

 though its appearance is young and sprightly. It 

 is a strange little Garden, and the well is most 

 quaint, quite an uncommon type, being only about 

 three feet deep and having a large stone with a 

 hole cut in the middle for a curb. 



Many lovely flowers and plants have first been 

 grown in cottages, or their Gardens. For instance, 

 the Fuchsia, that graceful plant, with its delicate 

 little hanging flowers, was first reared in England, in 

 a cottage. Not, however, in fresh country air, but 

 in a little house at Wapping, and the following 

 story is told of its discovery : Old Mr. Lee, the 

 well-known nursery gardener, happened to be in 

 Wapping one day, and seeing in a cottage window 

 "an elegant plant with flowers hanging in rows 



