VARIOUS FLOWER GARDENS. 



distance from the house, may afford better effects than if all the beds 

 are under the windows. Thus where the foreground is a pleasant 

 lawn it is often well to have another site for the flower garden ; and 

 good large beds or groups of beds, in which fine things can be grown. 

 To have in one spot a group of large beds, simple in outline 

 with Roses and smaller plants surfacing the ground ; next in some 

 isolated nook, large beds of Lilies, separated by a group of low shrubs 

 and flowering Yuccas from a few beds of hardy flowers ; then a varied 

 flower garden partially cut off and embowered by trees these and the 

 like are in certain situations likely to give that variety of treatment 

 which it is the aim of this chapter to secure. 



Lawn garden, Offington, Worthing. Engraved from a photograph by Miss Gaisford. 



TOTLEY HALL, NEAR SHEFFIELD, YORKS. This fine old country 

 house stands beside the old coach road from Sheffield to Chatsworth 

 and Haddon Hall, on an elevation with good and extensive views. 

 Over the front door is the date 1623, about the time when Gerard's 

 Herbhal was published, and six years before Parkinson's Paradisus 

 of 1629. Built in such a flower-loving epoch it seems fitting that 

 it should be a flowery place to-day. Inside the entrance hall there 

 is some fine old oak carving and staircase, and there was formerly 

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

 tated its removal. The flower garden slopes rather suddenly from 



