visitors who have come — their number has had to be stringently limited 

 of late — not one in twenty will believe that one loves a garden well 

 enough to take a great deal of trouble about it. 



In fact, it is only this unceasing labour and care and watchfulness ; 

 the due preparation according to knowledge and local experience ; the 

 looking out for signal of distress or for the time for extra nourishment, 

 water, shelter or support, that produces the garden that satisfies any one 

 with somewhat of the better garden knowledge ; a knowledge that does 

 not make for showy parterres or for any necessarily costly complications ; 

 rather, indeed, for all that is simplest, but that produces something that 

 is apparent at once to the eye, and sympathetic to the mind, of the true 

 garden-lover. 



It must have been a painful parting from the well-loved Roses and 

 the many other beauties of the Caunton garden, when the new duties of 

 honourable advancement called Canon Hole from the old home to the 

 Deanery of Rochester ; from the pure air of Nottinghamshire to 

 that of a town, with the added reek of neighbouring lime and cement 

 works. But even here good gardening has overcome all difficulties, 

 and though, when the air was more than usually loaded with the foul 

 gases given off by these industries, the Dean would remark, with a flash 

 of his characteristic humour, that Rochester was " a beautiful place 

 — to get away from," yet the Deanery garden is now full of Roses 

 and quantities of other good garden flowers, all grandly grown and in the 

 best of health. Roses are in fact rampant. A rough trellis, simply made 

 of split oak after the manner of the hurdles used for folding sheep in the 

 Midlands, but about six feet high, stands at the back of the main double 

 flower-border. Rambling Roses and others of free-growing habit are 

 loosely trained to this, their great heads of bloom hanging out every way 

 with fine effect ; each Rose is given freedom to show its own way of 

 beauty, while the trellis gives enough support and guides the general line 

 of the great hedge of Roses. 



The Dean is not alone among the flowers, for Mrs. Hole is also one 

 of the best of gardeners. 



The picture shows a portion of a double flower-border where a 

 curving path connects two others that are at different angles. In the 



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