Gardener's Pride 



In the courtyard a succession of flowers bloom ; 

 beginning with tulips, and the double white arabis, 

 and, later, purple ten-week stock and mauve and 

 blue viola ; clematis vitalba throws its generous 

 growth across it at a height of twenty feet, and the 

 beautiful ceahothus " Gloire de Versaille " covers 

 the white wall with its delicate blue 



My dear Jane, of course, you shall have tea, 

 and I won't say another word ! 



But I do want you to see my new Japanese 

 garden. 



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