Cherry Walk and Lawn 



gives us beautiful pink flowers in the spring, and 

 later on its fine foliage ; a passion-flower twines 

 itself above the Madonna lilies beneath another 

 window, and laburnum and clematis Jackmanni 

 bloom alternately over the wall that divides the 

 front garden from the garden proper. . . . 



I'll open the door. 



There ; you see the brick court from the other 

 side, and the rose pergola between the front door 

 and the little front gate, and the clematis montana, 

 and the acacias, the almond tree, what remains of 

 the old gentleman's laurels, the berberis, polygonum, 

 and the larches where you saw the squirrel. 



He is still there. . . . Two of them ! Little red 

 fellows. They will have nothing to do with their 

 grey American cousins, and I believe the Americans 

 eat out the Europeans. It is a terrible invasion : 

 surely a case for the Monroe Doctrine. 



Now, Jane — to adopt the manner of the pro- 

 fessional guide — turning our backs on the eligible 

 mansion — it is really a mansion, for it has two 

 staircases — we find in front of us an extensive view 

 of the croquet lawn running into the pine woods in 

 the distance, and flanked on one side by a herba- 

 ceous border and a high hedge and trees, and on 

 the other by another wide border topped by a 

 cherry walk. 



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