io A YEAR IN A LANCASHIRE GARDEN. 



II. 



Gardening Blunders The Walled Garden and the Fruit Walls 

 Spring Gardening Christmas Roses Snowdrops Pot Plants. 



January 5. What wonderful notions some 

 people have about gardens! In a clever novel 

 I have just been reading, there occurs this de- 

 scription : " The gardens at Wrexmore Hall were 

 in a blaze of beauty, with Geraniums and Chry- 

 santhemums of every hue." In the published 

 letters of Mr. Dallas, who was formerly United 

 States' Minister here, there is something still more 

 marvellous. He had been staying with Lord 

 Palmerston at Broadlands in the end of Sep- 

 tember, and he speaks of "the glowing beds of 

 Roses, Geraniums, Rhododendrons, Heliotropes, 

 Pinks, Chrysanthemums." I shall have to make 

 a pilgrimage to Broadlands. Meanwhile, why 

 should we not more often bed out Chrysanthe- 

 mums in masses, as in the Temple Gardens ? A 

 " winter garden " is generally nothing more than 



