VII 



THE HEATH GARDEN 



My excuse for introducing a special chapter 

 upon the heaths is to bring a beautiful group 

 before those who wish to free themselves from 

 evergreens which have become wearisome. It has 

 been my pleasure and privilege to visit many 

 of the most interesting of English gardens, but 

 in few is the heath in the woodland or in those 

 open grassy spaces which offer a suitable home. 

 It is always with a knowledge that some fresh 

 lesson may be gleaned that I repeatedly visit 

 the Royal Gardens at Kew, and one of the 

 latest additions is the Heath Garden, near the 

 Pagoda; there are grouped the most interesting 

 kinds, and when the flowers are open a flood of 

 softest colouring comes from the little bushy 

 shrubs. On rough banks, in the woodland, and 

 even in grass, the heaths will flower, not in the 



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