. My garden in summer . hin an hour into regions where thousands of Rosesscent the air, and the finest and newest are to be seengrown to perfection by my neighbours—.the Pauls on oneside, and by Stuart Low on the other—but if you plungea garden fork into the lawns here you will soon learn thatthis slightly raised ground that contains the garden is toobony, on account of the deposits of gravel left here bysome vast primeval continental rivers mouth, to produceshow blooms of Roses without Herculean efforts in theway of excavating and a corresponding filling up thatwould better suit the purse of
. My garden in summer . hin an hour into regions where thousands of Rosesscent the air, and the finest and newest are to be seengrown to perfection by my neighbours—.the Pauls on oneside, and by Stuart Low on the other—but if you plungea garden fork into the lawns here you will soon learn thatthis slightly raised ground that contains the garden is toobony, on account of the deposits of gravel left here bysome vast primeval continental rivers mouth, to produceshow blooms of Roses without Herculean efforts in theway of excavating and a corresponding filling up thatwould better suit the purse of Fortunatus or the pocketsof Croesus, Midas, Plutus & Co. than mine. So the Rosegarden here covers square yards instead of acres, and isjust pretty to look at and useful to cut from but nothingto boast of or write about at any length. It consists of acentral group of four formal beds for Roses and four forCarnations, surrounding the old Enfield Market Cross inan enclosed garden. This is a parallelogram, with a 46. ll\ 1 e:i Kose, -Matlaiiic 1\;i\hi\,(See ]). 48.; Roses pergola for western boundary, several of my favouritesamong climbing Roses occupying its posts on the rosegarden side. The southern side is the most open, andonly divided from the Iris beds along the River by awide bed for standard dwarf roses, with a row of, atpresent, promising young Eucalyptus trees among eastern side is flanked by a continuation of this bed,backed by the Rhododendrons that line one side of theRhododendron walk and a Magnolia or two rising abovethem. The Northern side is another portion of thissurrounding bed, but it is divided in its midst by a narrowpaved walk of old York stone paving from London streets,now passing their old age quietly and peacefully in thecountry. This leads into the little formal garden wheremy best Daffodils grow and up to the new wall and itscentral garden house, which together cut off the cruelwinds and make this paved garden so cosy and shelteredtha
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