VARIOUS GARDENS 



pasture, through which an old stream-bed still 

 could be followed, and built the walls around the 

 'Little Garden,' as it is called, to distinguish it 

 from the Orchard, the Rock Garden, and the 

 Shrubbery, etc. The ideas expressed in this small 

 place were harmonious color, fragrance, plants 

 mentioned in literature, and water. There were 

 several large 'Live Oaks,' as the California oak 

 is called, in the enclosure, which served as a start- 

 ing-point for the walls, the seats, and the general 

 shape of the garden. A formal plan of walks and 

 beds was decided upon in the first place, varied 

 sUghtly by the position of existing objects in the 

 way that a Turkish rug varies from its pattern 

 in places. I am told by garden architects that 

 it is not exact enough, but I could not bear to lose 

 a single old tree; and the mathematical glories 

 must suffer a little. 



"A garden seems to me a collection of the flowers 

 one loves best or has a very dear association with 

 in one's mind from poems or books, and mine began 

 with Laurus nohilis and orange-trees, jasmine and 

 ivy, and chmbing roses on the walls — Madame Al- 

 fred Carriere, La Marque, and Olga of Wtirtem- 

 berg, Celine Forestiet and Beauty of Glazen- 

 wood — the white wistaria in the oak-trees in the 



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