OLD GARDENS. 87 



fixing an arched trelliswork of wire, with a wire 

 seat inside, and over it I shall train and trail the 

 broad leaves of the Aristolochia and the scarlet 

 blossoms of the Tropaeolum speciosum. 



The vineries are of course at rest ; but in them 

 are Roman Hyacinths, now ready for the house, 

 and pots of Polyanthus Narcissus will be also 

 ready within a week. 



The porch of the house is filled on either side 

 with stages of Chrysanthemums, and the fine 

 glossy foliage of an Aralia looks well in the inside 

 vestibule. 



And now I bring these notes to an end. My 

 aim has been to show how much interest and 

 pleasure may be gathered out of a garden of 

 moderate pretensions, and with no great appli- 

 ances in the way of glass, nor any advantage in 

 the way of climate. 



I have endeavoured, too, to reclaim for our 

 English gardens those old flowers, which Shake- 

 speare and Milton and Marvell and Cowley loved. 

 They have been far too long neglected for flowers, 

 whose only charm is charm of colour and a cer- 

 tain evenness of growth. The ordinary bedded 

 garden of to-day is as inferior to the Elizabethan 

 gardens of old, as all gardens anywhere must 



