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HERBACEOUS GARDEN 
for cutting, mignonette, rosy larkspur, snap- 
dragons, scabious, Aster sinensis , and stocks, 
and in a sunny corner is a mass of Valerian, 
red, pink, and white. In the middle of the 
garden grow a tall almond tree and a peach 
tree, left there for the sake of their lovely 
blossom in spring. There is also a pear tree 
with a rose, Paul’s single white, growing up it. 
Single hollyhocks in lemon, white, and pale 
pink seed themselves and come up sometimes 
most happily in unexpected places. 
To protect the peach and apricot trees that 
are on the wall against early frost, iron rods, 
turned up at the end, after the fashion of the 
garden at Bagatelle, are driven into the wall 
near the top and project 18 inches or 2 feet. 
Small thatched hurdles, as wide as the rods are 
long (or light frames covered with oiled paper 
would do), are laid upon and secured to these, 
being partly held in place by the turned-up 
end of the projecting rod. Old fish-nets can 
be fastened to them to hang down as a protec- 
tion if the small hurdles cannot be obtained, 
but in most districts wattle hurdles can be 
made in any size required. At one time I 
had some small frames thatched with straw 
which answered the purpose admirably, and 
never before or since have we had such wall 
