Good hardy flowers are everywhere in abundance. Specially beautiful 

 in the later summer is a grand pink Hollyhock of strong free habit, 

 with the flowers of that best of all shapes— with wide, frilled outer petals 

 and centres not too tightly packed. 



It would be interesting work for some one with a knowledge of 

 the garden design of the past three centuries in England to try to 

 reconstruct the original plan of some one time. Though on the ground 

 the various remaining portions of the older work cannot be pieced 

 together, yet, if these were put on paper to proper scale, it might 

 be possible to come to some general conclusions as to the way in which 

 the garden was originally, and again perhaps subsequently, laid out. 

 Some of the remaining portions of the older work of quite different 

 dates may now seem to be of the same age, but the expert would 

 probably be able to discriminate. The result of such a study would 

 be worth having even if actual reconstruction were not contemplated. 



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