Picturesque English Cottages and Their Doorway Gardens 
A COTTAGE ON THE OUTSKIRTS OF DORKING 
begun to appre¬ 
ciate our herba¬ 
ceous borders and 
to value the plants 
which some of our 
village neighbors 
are now discard¬ 
ing. We hope 
that they will re¬ 
turn to their first 
love, and cherish 
again the old flow¬ 
ers which are the 
true glory of a 
rustic garden. 
I n the outskirts 
of Dorking there 
is a beautiful cot¬ 
tage garden. A 
small stream sep¬ 
arates it f r o m 
the road, along 
which Romans 
marched, and the 
pilgrims wended 
their way to the 
Shrine of St. 
Thomas at Can- 
A GARDEN WALK, SHALFLEET 
terbury. in the 
front of the house, 
which is a half- 
timbered struc¬ 
ture, with a beau- 
tiful tiled roof 
and tile-covered 
porch and agrace- 
ful clustered 
chimney-stack, is 
the flower gar¬ 
den, while behind 
it the useful vege¬ 
tables grow. We 
give two views of 
this fine Dorking 
garden, enclosed 
by a simple pal¬ 
ing fence, its box- 
edged garden 
path, and its 
wealth of luxuri¬ 
ant shrubs and 
flowers and creep¬ 
ing plants. The 
old lattice win¬ 
dows remain, and 
happily have not 
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