68 THE ENGLISH FLOWER GARDEN. 



a quaint old gallery around the hall, but new additions necessi- 

 tated its removal. The flower garden slopes rather suddenly from 

 the fringe of the front lawn and is rich in well-grown Daffodils 

 and other choice flowers, sheltered by winding hedges. There is a 

 fine range of hills terminated by a bluff or headland in front 

 of the house, and to the right are vast stretches of moorland. The 

 elevated character and breezy freshness of the place are suggestive 

 of the sea. 



Here, in spring, appear in great profusion the chaste flowers of the 

 Daffodils, for Totley Hall is a home of the Daffodil. Standing at the 

 lower end of the long flower borders confined within hedges of 

 Hollies, intersected by a winding path fringed with seedling Auriculas 

 there is seen a host of Daffodils. 



As one gazes upon them, with their delicate and fragile heads 

 waving gently to and fro in the soft westerly breeze, there rush 

 involuntarily to one's mind Wordsworth's words on his sudden view 

 of the wild Daffodils at Ullswater 



then my heart with pleasure fills 



And dances with the Daffodils. 



The deep golden yellows glow with a warmth that suggests the 

 absorption of the sun's rays at their brightest moments. The chaste 

 and beautiful whiteness of others appears as if they had quietly 

 appropriated, in the stillness of the night, the silvery moonbeams 

 that softly kissed their fragile petals, whilst the paler tints of cream, 

 sulphur and primrose are suggestive of the soft-coloured mantle spread 

 o'er the skies by the lingering rays of the setting sun. The Daffodil 

 fit emblem of spring is here in all its forms and colours. F. W. B. 



THE KEEP GARDEN AT FARNHAM CASTLE. In our own day, 

 when it has been stated that the only garden worthy the name is one 

 within four square walls, it interests me to come upon gardens 

 of wholly different character, which show the folly of rules about 

 a subject which admits of so much variety of position, form, and 

 detail as a flower garden does. One of the most interesting I have 

 lately seen is the little flower garden on the top of the old keep at 

 Farnham Castle, which is as picturesque in situation and informal in 

 outline as a garden can be, while it is extremely pretty with the 

 broken walls on all sides clad with Ivy and Clematis, and in the centre 

 many flowers. The variety of form from the walls surrounding it and 

 the various climbers give it a singular charm. The hardiest flowers 

 are grown, as is most fitting for such a garden Irises in masses and 

 evergreen perennials, which help to keep some grace in the garden 

 towards the end of the year, and Tea and other Roses also help. 

 Although I saw it on the verge of winter, it even then had much 

 beauty of leaf and flower. 



