Cherry Walk and Lawn 



them. And I would, but for M. Maeterlinck, who 

 lias made me sentimental about them for ever 

 and ever ! 



Arbutus and Rhus cotinoides make a fine 

 shrubby background for the flowers, which grow 

 here as thickly as they choose : violas, cranesbill, 

 poppies, lupins, anchusa, lilies, delphiniums, etc. 



And so on, down to the dovecot, the bamboos 

 and the rhododendrons. To see them rightly you 

 must walk back to the courtyard, looking neither 

 to the right-hand nor the left, for you must see 

 everything in due order ; but you may observe the 

 Madonna lilies growing by the long hall window, 

 and the carved stone urn on the lawn, bought in 

 Venice for one pound, though by the time it reached 

 England by the " little quickness," it had cost three 

 times that sum. 



(Jane, being of a later generation than Mary 

 Fleetwood of the sampler, is quick at figures, and 

 in an astonishing short time has worked it out in 

 lire !) 



Now, dear Jane, you see the rhododendrons 

 massed against the wood and the silver birches 

 rising above them, under which we swing our 

 hammocks, and the glimpse of the road through 

 the trees, and the weeping elms half hidden behind 

 the cherry walk. 



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