THE WALLED GARDEN. 11 



a garden of small evergreens, which, of course, is 

 an improvement on bare soil, but which is in itself 

 not singularly interesting. 



Since last I wrote, we have had storms of wind 

 and rain, and some little snow and frost, but the 

 weather has, on the whole, been very genial for 

 the time of year. I have finished my planting, 

 and am now busy re-sodding the grass terrace 

 which runs along the south and east of the house ; 

 the grass had become full of weeds, and in places 

 was bare and brown. But my most important 

 work has been within the walled garden. This 

 garden is entered by a door in the south-east wall, 

 and two walls, facing south-west and north-east, 

 run at right angles to it. A thick hedge, guarded 

 by wire netting to keep out the rabbits, is at the 

 further or north-west side, and divides us from the 

 home-croft. Along the south-east wall we have 

 two vineries, and between them a small range of 

 frames and hotbeds. Against the sheltered wall 

 between the vineries we have a Magnolia gfandi- 

 flora, which flowered with me last year ; a Banksian 

 Rose, which has done no good as yet ; and a 

 General Jacqueminot, which is always beautiful. 

 A Camellia (Woodsii), which flowered abundantly 

 last spring, I have moved elsewhere, and have 



