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Old Time Gardens 



a lawn — so that when surrounded by brick walls 

 they seem about two feet high when viewed outside, 

 but are five feet or more high from within the gar- 

 den. There are brick or stone steps in the middle 

 of each of the four walls by which to descend to the 

 garden, which may be all planted with flowers, but 

 preferably should have set borders of flowers with 



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a grass-plot in the centre. On either side of the 

 steps should be brick posts surmounted by Dutch 

 pots with plants, or by balls of stone. Planted with 

 bulbs, these gardens in their flowering time are, as 

 old Parkinson said, a " perfect fielde of delite." 

 We have very pretty Dutch gardens, so called, in 

 America, but their chief claim to being Dutch is 

 that they are set with bulbs, and have Delft or other 

 earthen pots or boxes for formal plants or shrubs. 



