PRIVATE GARDENS 
met wir,h. Within Regent’s Park there are ^ 
charming gardens round the detached WPx which -o, 
been already noticed in the chapter un non Park, 
two most interesting from a hortici? r :; point W 
are St. Katharine’s and St. John’s k • 
in the former is the fron 
that view says more than • 
might be in some • 
are the sights a-d On 
a still. ho-' ■: ol 
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poppies^ pyim-noena arid lilies. v. hue n- 
large variety of flowering shrubs—ribes, lilacs, buddkkrc 
shumachs and Aralia spinosa . The kitchen-garden pro¬ 
duces good crops of most of the ordinary vegetables. 
The garden is arranged with a definite design ; there is 
nothing spec-ally formal, no cut trees or anything asso¬ 
ciates; • •■■■ r there 
met nod m thx- , , ■: i n on* grow as 
Nature m-tended oonr orto .v. r*o f stuck, about in 
IftCOflgruoto -nr \ -■ 
as is so often o - - gong a garden or 
“ improving ’’ a yok. 
St. John’s Lodge on ;■ wdi-thought-out garden, 
some of it <o a dist.no nal type. The coloured 
illustration of :r is tak- >m a part of the garden 
enclosed with cut privet kos, with a fountain in the 
centre, on which stands a s o u of St. John the Baptist, 
nv Mr. Johnes. Between the four wide grass walks 
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