OLD ENGLISH GARDENS 



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Musk and Mignonette, Shirley ami Icckuul 

 Poppies. Love-in-a-mist and Xigella, Musk 

 Mallow and \'enus' Looking-glass. All 

 are delightfully easy flowers to grow, and 

 so, above all others, are best suited to the 

 old English garden, whence rebelhous 

 plants are barred. One simply sows the 

 seed in spring, and removes the seedhngs 

 here and there when they cluster too 



fragrance that is wanting in the paler 

 sorts. Such, for instance, as General 

 Jacqueminot, Sultan of Zanzibar, Duke oi 

 Edinborough, Duke of Wellington, A. K. 

 WiUiams, and Fisher Holmes are inchspen- 

 sable in a garden that is destined to take 

 its place among those honoured by the 

 name of old English. They are as the 

 breath of the garden, the spirit of its being, 





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IN THE FLOWER GARDEN, BELVOIR CASTLE. 



thickly, and again the garden goes on its 

 own wild way. 



Above all things, however, the old- 

 fashioned garden should have a border 

 full of fragrant leaves and sweet-scented 

 blossom, of Bee Balm, Southernwood, 

 Lads' Love, Lavender, Rosemary, Thyme, 

 and Sweet Verbena, for such as these are 

 the very soul of an old-world garden — 

 these .together with Cabbage Roses, the 

 quaintly striped blooms of the York and 

 Lancaster Rose, the pink and crimson 

 Monthlies, the Cluster Roses, white Pinks 

 and London Pride. Then the dark red 

 and crimson roses must not be forgotten. 

 ior more often than not these have a full 



for enchantment rides on fragrant wings, 

 sweet scents hide subtle charm. Thus 

 if one would make an old English garden 

 he should first take care that the prosaic 

 foundation, without which the most ex- 

 quisite su]ierstructure cannot last, is 

 not wanting. It slK)uld be firm and well 

 laid, for the glory of the garden grows 

 slowly, yet on a good foundation most 

 surely as the years pass by. Then are 

 chosen the most fragrant blossoms that 

 sweet thoughts may come to one on the 

 breath of the flowe'rs. wafted Uke echoes 

 from a fast fading, hallowed past. Some 

 of these should be near tlie house 

 windows that, morning and evening, noon 



