4 IN A GLOUCESTERSHIRE GARDEN 



best. And because of this special character in each 

 separate garden it follows that each garden has 

 something to teach, which cannot be taught so well 

 elsewhere ; and the happy result is that no one 

 with a love for gardening who visits other gardens 

 with his eyes open can ever go into a garden (especially 

 if the owner of that garden is a true lover of flowers) 

 without learning something. And it is this that makes 

 the records of good gardens such pleasant reading; 

 we cannot all go to Lancashire, Scotland, or the 

 Thames Valley, but we can be thankful for the 

 records of the gardens in those places as we read 

 them in Mr. Bright's Year in a Lancashire Garden, or 

 The Chronicle of a Year, chiefly in a Garden (also in 

 Lancashire), in Mr. Milner's Country Pleasures, or in 

 Miss Hope's Gardens and Woodlands (near Edinburgh), 

 or ' E. V. B.'s ' delightful Days and Hours in a Garden 

 (in Middlesex). 



"With this conviction in my mind I think that a 

 record of a garden far removed from Lancashire and 

 Scotland, and even from Middlesex, with very different 

 surroundings, and carried on under very different 

 conditions, in south-west Gloucestershire, may have 

 an interest. 



I must first describe the garden. It is not a large 

 garden the whole extent, including a good propor- 



