be seen massed against clusters of white Roses or branches of A fine 
pink Penzance Briar, while below grow Lilies—particularly Border 
fine clumps of chalcedonicum and pardalinum—white Daisies, 
white Fraxinella, Alstroemerias, Campanulas, etc. 
The second picture is of the flower garden which adjoins 
the walled garden, and so gains on one side a fine red brick 
buttressed wall. Round the rest of it is a semi-circular Holly 
hedge, and beyond, giving further shelter, a belt of big trees. 
Every imaginable flower is growing in this turfed enclosure, 
and the feast of colour is so great that it is a more enjoyable 
spot for wandering, and drinking in beauties, than for attempt- 
ing to paint them. From the start one knows that justice can 
never be done, and a sketch is no sooner begun than one longs 
to be at another subject which looks even more tempting. Four 
large round gardens, set far apart from each other, form the 
great feature; all are different, and yet all have in common 
gigantic posts, twelve or fourteen feet high, placed in a circle, 
and clothed with Roses to their tops—connecting chains 
festooned with Roses join them to each other, and in some 
cases to a centre post as well, while others are connected in 
groups of three by wooden rails. 
The arrangement of the surrounding beds varies too. Here 
are two circular beds, one within the other, divided by grass 
paths, the inner bed of Roses, the outer of herbaceous plants 
—there, an encircling bed of herbaceous plants alone, about nine 
feet wide, full of lovely flowers. Everywhere are clumps of 
pale blue Delphiniums grouped next golden Alstroemeria and 
the feathery spikes of Cimicifuga racemosa, with great shoots of 
the Rose Alister Stella Grey, or tumbling clusters of Felicite 
Perpetue as a background; Campanula Jactiflora is grouped 
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