CHAPTER IV 



BETWEEN SPRING AND SUMMER 



When the Spring flowers are done, and before the full 



June days come with the great Flag Irises and the 



perennial Lupines, there is a kind of mid-season. If 



it can be given a space of ground it will be well bestowed. 



I have a place that I call the Hidden Garden, because 



it is in a corner that might so easily be overlooked if 



one did not know where to find it. No. important 



path leads into it, though two pass within ten yards 



of it on either side. It is in a sort of clearing among 



Ilex and Holly, and the three small ways into it are 



devious and scarcely noticeable from the outside. 



The most important of these, marked i on the plan, 



passes between some climips of over-arching Bamboo 



and through a short curved tunnel of Yew and Ilex. 



Another, marked 2, is only just traceable among 



Berberis under a large Birch, and comes sharply 



round a tall Monterey Cypress. The third turns out 



of one of the shady woodland glades and comes into 



the little garden by some rough stone steps. 



The plan shows the simple arrangement, the paths 

 following the most natural lines that the place suggests. 

 The main path goes down some shallow, rough stone 

 steps with a sunny bank to the left and a rocky mound 



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