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Gardeners’ Chronicle. 
SATURDAY, JULY 18, 1895. 
A GLOUCESTERSHIRE GARDEN.* 
— the publication, in these columns, some 
twenty years ago, of * A Year in a Lancashire 
Garden,” there has been a succession of similar 
books. Some of these have been written with 
literary skill, but little knowledge of plants, 
Some have been more conspicuous for frothiness 
or sentimentality than for the advancement of 
knowledge. Rare, indeed, has been the combi- 
nation of an expert’s knowledge and the scholar's 
reading with the fluenoy of а ready writer. 
But this is what the reader will find in the 
present volume, and having found it, he will 
assuredly, in Dickensian phrase, make a note of 
it. The work owes its existence to certain papers 
published from time to time in the Guardian. 
As now collected, they form two series, one 
dealing with the aspeots of the garden in each 
month of the year, and the other with various 
categories of plants and miscellaneous cognate 
subjects. The garden is, of course, that favoured 
one in a warm corner of Gloucestershire which 
tter icta of the 
character and proolivities of а man than does 
his garden. Tastes differ, opinions vary, natural 
intelligence and acquired knowledge are pos- 
ed in the most diverse degrees, and al these 
categories as they occasionally blend or overlap. 
When this does occur, the result is a combina- 
tion of beauty and interest than which nothing 
more desirable can be imagined, The author of 
the present volume recognises this, for he s'ates 
at the outset that “every garden has its own 
pecial and separate character, which arises 
partly from the tastes of the owner or his gar- 
dener, but still more from the situation, aspect, 
and soil of the garden.” As a general statement 
this is, of course, true; but it is equally true in 
special cases, that the tastes and knowledge of 
pitionk Obstacles do but serve to bring out the e 
skill of the gardener. The garden at Bitton is 
known by repute to so many that some account 
of it from the author's pen will be welcome :— 
"It is not & large garden—the whole extent, 
including & good proportion of Ne bei 
an acre and a half, and in shape a 
double square, It lies on the 55 
Cotswolds, which rise about half a mile away to the 
height of 750 feet; and about fifteen miles to the 
na Gloucestershire Garden, Дане: бар Ellacombe, M.A, 
м. ы ward Arnol^, 37, Bedford Stree 
