CHAPTER V 



THE JUNE GARDEN 



Beyond the lawn and a belt of Spanish Chestnut I 

 have a little cottage that is known as the Hut. I 

 lived in it for two years while my house was building, 

 and may possibly live in. it again for the sake of re- 

 plenishing an over-drained exchequer, if the ideal 

 well-to-do invalid flower-lover or some such very quiet 

 summer tenant, to whom alone I could consent to 

 surrender my dear home for a few weeks, should be 

 presented by a kind Providence: Meanwhile it -is 

 always in good use for various purposes, such as seed- 

 drjdng, pot-pourri preparing, and the like. 



The garden in front and at the back is mainly a 

 June garden. It has Peonies, Irises, Lupines, and 

 others of the best flowers of the season, and a few for 

 later blooming. The entrance to the Hut is through 

 Yews that arch overhead. Close to the right is a taU 

 Holly with a Clematis montana growing into it and 

 tumbling out at the top. The space of garden to the 

 left, being of too deep a shape to be easily got at from 

 the path on the one side and the stone paving on the 

 other, has a kind of dividing backbone made of a 

 double row of Rose hoops or low arches, rising from 

 good greenery of Male Fern and the fem-hke Sweet 



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