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attention it receives is that every three or four years 

 the internal mass of old dead wood is cut right out, 

 when the bush seems to spring into new Ufe. 



Passing this angle and going along the path leading 

 to the studio door in the little stone-paved court, 

 there is a seat under an arbour formed by the Yews ; 

 the front of it has a Dundee Rambler Rose supported 

 by a rough wooden framework. On the right, next 

 the paving, are two large standard Roses with heads 

 three and four feet through. They are old garden 

 Roses, worked in cottage fashion on a common Dog- 

 rose stock. One is Celeste, of loveliest tender rose 

 colour, its broad bluish leaves showing its near relation- 

 ship to Rosa alba ; the other the white Mme. Plantier. 

 This old Rose, with its abundant bimches of pure 

 white flowers, always seems to me to be one of the 

 most charming of the older garden kinds. It will 

 grow in almost any way, and is delightful in all ; as a 

 pillar, as a hedge, as a bush, as a big cottage standard, 

 or in the border tumbling about among early summer 

 flowers. Like the Blush GalUca, which just precedes 

 it in time of blooming, it is one of the old picture Roses. 

 Both should be in quantity in every garden, and yet 

 they are but rarely to be seen. 



The border next the paving has climips of the old 

 garden Peonies (P. officinalis). By the time these 

 are over, towards the end of June, groups of the 

 earlier orange Herring Lilies are in bloom. A thick and 

 rather high Box edging neatly trims these borders, 

 and favours tlie cottage-garden sentiment that is 

 fostered in this region. At the back of the Yews that 



