CHAPTER III 



THE SPRING GARDEN 



As my garden falls naturally into various portions, 

 distinct enough from each other to allow of separate 

 treatment, I have found it well to devote one space at 

 a time, sometimes mainly, sometimes entirely, to the 

 flowers of one season of the year; 



There is therefore one portion that is a complete 

 little garden of spring flowers. It begins to show some 

 bloom by the end of March, but its proper season is 

 the month of April and three weeks of May. 



In many places the spring garden has to give way 

 to the summer garden, a plan that greatly restricts 

 the choice of plants, and necessarily excludes some of 

 the finest flowers of the early year. 



My spring garden hes at the end and back of a high 

 wall that shelters the big summer flower border from 

 the north and north-west winds. The line of the wall 

 is continued as a Yew hedge that in time will rise to 

 nearly the same height, about eleven feet. At the far 

 end the Yew hedge returns to the left so as to fence 

 in the spring flowers from the east and to hide some 

 sheds. The space also encloses some beds of Tree 

 Peonies and a plot of grass, roughly circular in shape, 

 about eight yards across, which is nearly surrounded 



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