House and Garden 
THE GARDEN OF THE TOLLBURY STUD FARM 
watered and washed so religiously that they 
flourish famously. Plants are like animals, 
and respond gratefully to the affectionate 
regard and care of their masters. The fa¬ 
vorite flowers for window gardens are gera¬ 
niums, hydrangeas, fuchsias, an occasional 
cactus or begonia, musk and balsam and 
many others which obscure the light of day 
and make the cottage dark, but the peasant 
cares not for that if he can see his flowers. 
Some cottages can boast of their rose 
gardens, the owners of which obtain many 
prizes at the local flower shows. The views 
of the garden of the Tollbury Stud Farm 
show a fine and flourishing rose garden with 
an edging of tiles partly covered with pinks 
wherein the roses, chief glory of the English 
gardens, find a congenial home. The other 
view of the same garden is very picturesque, 
with its diminutive lawn, its pinks and lark¬ 
spurs and other old-fashioned English flow¬ 
ers. These constitute the chief charm of 
the cottage garden, and are prized by the 
true garden lover far higher than bedding-out 
plants or the ordinary annuals. Nowhere 
do they flourish better than in the peasant’s 
rustic pleasure-ground. The best of these 
old flowers which you will see in many a 
cottage garden are the lilacs and laburnums, 
sweet williams and tall white Madonna lilies, 
gillyflowers and love-lies-bleeding, the lark¬ 
spur and the lupin, pinks and carnations, the 
ever constant wallflowers, and the Canter¬ 
bury Bells. The everlasting-pea is always 
welcome in its cottage home, and dahlias are 
greatly prized, not the single ones so much as 
the old-fashioned, tight-growing, formal kinds. 
In some parts of England there is a ten¬ 
dency among cottagers to neglect these old- 
fashioned flowers and cultivate the hardy 
annuals. Nasturtiums and China asters and 
stocks flourish where once the sweet william 
and other herbaceous plants were regarded 
with delight. In our own gardens we have 
