The Happy Garden 



mignonette, phlox Drummondi, and poppy Miss 

 Sherwood ; planted in large groups, running in and 

 out of each other so as not to be too formal, and so 

 as to mingle with the bold patches of mauve and 

 white campanulas, English iris and pink mallow. 



The beautiful blue phacelia grandiflora, of course, 

 is grown, but that is reserved for the border along 

 the wall, where it tumbles over the stones of the 

 courtyard. Canterbury bells are in the big borders, 

 but larkspurs are allowed among the other annuals. 



Each aspect has its own individuality. At the 

 orchard end the borders terminate in lavender 

 hedges. Pillar roses — Rubens, Euphrosyne, Leuch- 

 stern and a white single rose — mark it off from, and 

 introduce it to, the lawn, where, at a little distance, 

 there is a great bush — four or five yards through — 

 of the single white polyanthus rose, the beloved of 

 Miss Jekyll, whose books are a necessary part of 

 every gardener's development. As Browning said 

 of his wife — a remark which has always curbed my 

 admiration for the poet — " To love her is a liberal 

 education " . . .To introduce Miss Jekyll's books 

 to a house is almost enough to make a garden 

 grow about it. To introduce them to a contented 

 gardenless woman is ' a social danger. ... In 

 practice there is only one reason to quarrel with 

 Miss Jekyll. She is merciless. With seedlings she 



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