A GARDEN NOTE-BOOK 



though it had been last summer, so deep an impress 

 does the highest beauty in gardening leave upon 

 the mind of its affectionate student and disciple. 



The three pictures mentioned above show three 

 distinct periods of bloom — the nut walk, early- 

 spring; the second a July border; the third the 

 flowers of August. The beginning of this nut 

 walk, whose tree is, of course, the cob or hazel-nut 

 (Corylus), is described in Miss Jekyll's book, 

 "Wood and Garden," with such practical detail 

 that the passage is given entire. This was written 

 in 1900, and the walk is now thirty years old — a 

 beautiful tunnel of small trees, at whose feet prim- 

 roses and hellebores cover the ground on either 

 side of the narrow path. 



"The nut walk was planted twelve years ago. 

 There are two rows on each side, one row four feet 

 behind the other, and the nuts are ten feet apart 

 in the rows. They are planted zigzag, those in 

 the back rows showing between the front ones. 

 As the two inner rows are thirteen feet apart, 

 measuring across the path, it leaves a shady bor- 

 der on each side, with deeper bays between the 

 nearest trees. Lent hellebores fill one border from 

 end to end; the other is planted with the Corsican 

 and the native kinds, so that throughout February 



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