The Happy Garden 



" Good Heavens ! " 



All the new rooms, the addition to the drawing- 

 room, the study, and the servants' hall, are roofed 

 with tiles, so that it is easy to mark the progress 

 of the house. 



The blue bambino on the drawing-room wall 

 looks its best when the Virginia creeper is trailing 

 over it, but it is always a relief from the white, 

 green, and ruddy brown of the general scheme ; 

 just as the old red curtain in the study quickens 

 the effect of the black, white and green. 



Now come through the green door into the 

 little front garden and the brick court, and out into 

 the drive, to see the north-west side of the house, 

 and the gardener's cottage. There is the window 

 of Jane's little mauve room, and the bath-room 

 with the brass jugs — mostly brought from Siena — 

 gleaming at the window. That nice long sloping 

 roof is the servants' sitting-room, the very latest 

 addition. 



A tiny brick court is between this room and the 

 privet hedge round the lower end of the orchard. 

 In summer it is gay with tubs of fuchsias. 



The gardener's cottage is an absurd little house, 

 like a little tug butting at a great ship. Another 

 brick court gives it a little garden of its own, walled 

 in with espalier fruit trees. 



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