HISTORICAL GARDENS 
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wick Square lies to the west, and Mecklenburgh Square 
to the east, so the Hospital grounds are still airy. There 
is a small garden at the back of the building in front of 
the Infirmary; on the east is the Treasurer’s Garden, 
a fair-sized enclosure, and on the other side, with the 
poplars growing in Brunswick Square overhanging it, lies 
the other and larger of the two “ convenient gardens.” 
There is nothing old-fashioned or attractive in these 
gardens left; merely a green lawn, a weeping ash, and a 
few commonplace “ bedding-out ” plants ; not altogether 
in keeping with the age or dignity of the building and 
spacious forecourt. 
Less well known is the delightful Garden of the Grey¬ 
coat School in Westminster. Most of the old founda¬ 
tions in Westminster have vanished, such as Emanuel 
Hospital and the “ Blue-coat School,” which disappeared 
a few years ago, but so far this charming old house has 
been respected. Quaint figures of the children in the 
dress of the time—-it was founded by the citizens of 
Westminster in 1698—stand on either side of the 
entrance. The children from the parishes of St. 
Margaret and St. John the Evangelist, who have 
attended the elementary schools for three years, are 
eligible for admission, up to the age of ten. The 
school was reconstituted as a day school for 300 girls 
in 1873, and, in spite of all educational vicissitudes, has 
been allowed to survive, and the sweet and wholesome 
influence of those old-fashioned surroundings would be 
a great loss, should it ever be swept away. The Garden 
is delightful. It is practical as well as ornamental, as it 
furnishes the staff of teachers with a good supply of 
vegetables. They have each a small flower-bed too, 
tended with great care, and the children are allowed a 
