30 HOW THE GARDEN WAS MADE 



outline chiefly the upper terraces near the house 

 and form hedge-like boundaries to the two acres of 

 flower garden, it would seem that all reached its 

 climax of strong colour in the autumn. Even 

 small apple-trees, baby bushes still, for the first 

 were only planted in 1905-6, are bearing golden 

 leaves, and the waving grass of long asparagus-beds 

 brings the gold yet closer to the ground. One or 

 two touches of strong red are noticeable. These 

 come from groups of sumach, while a bush with 

 spiky thorns, called Cratcegus Aria, also has fine 

 red leaves ; then, too, very large Gascoigne's 

 Scarlet apples continue this colour in the orchards. 

 From amongst the silver-white of starworts in the 

 long border are seen bold groups of red gladiolus. 

 The silver is taken up again by the foliage of 

 alyssum, thyme, and dianthus, and thrown yet 

 higher to the willows of all sizes and shapes that 

 surround many of the gardens. Upon the roof- 

 garden above the two offices are red geraniums and 

 white daisies in Italian terra-cotta pots, the only 

 summer decorations that remain. 



The garden is even now, of course, a very young 

 one, and in order to appreciate the difficulties that 

 have had to be overcome to make it the poor, yet 

 perhaps all the more lovable, one that it is, a brief 

 record of its past story is necessary. 



My College of Gardening was founded at Glynde 

 in 1902, but in the late autumn of 1905 it was 

 necessary, owing to an increase of students, to 

 supplement the ground then occupied by an 

 additional piece of land. At that time Ragged 

 Lands was a cornfield devoid of house or semblance 



