. Some English gardens;. an imperishable majolica plaque. Many well-known givers names are here, from that of the very highest in the landdownward. The plants themselves comprise many of the best andhandsomest. The picture shows the garden as it is about the middle of September;the time of the great White Pyrethrum, the perennial Sunflowers and theearliest of the Michaelmas Daisies. The bush of Lavender is bloominglate, its normal flowering time is a month earlier. But Lavender,especially when some of the first bloom is cut, will often go on flowering,as later-formed shoots come to blooming st
. Some English gardens;. an imperishable majolica plaque. Many well-known givers names are here, from that of the very highest in the landdownward. The plants themselves comprise many of the best andhandsomest. The picture shows the garden as it is about the middle of September;the time of the great White Pyrethrum, the perennial Sunflowers and theearliest of the Michaelmas Daisies. The bush of Lavender is bloominglate, its normal flowering time is a month earlier. But Lavender,especially when some of the first bloom is cut, will often go on flowering,as later-formed shoots come to blooming strength. Let us hope that thegiver is not shortlived like the gift, for Lavender bushes, after a fewyears of strong life, soon wear out. Already this one is showing signs ofage, and it would be well to set a few cuttings in spring or autumn, or,still better, to layer it by one of the lower branches, in order to renew 90 STONE HALL, EASTON : THE FRIENDSHIPGARDEN FROM THE PICTURE IN THE POSSESSION OF The Countess of Warwick. the life of the plant when the strength of the present bush comes to anend. Such a garden, full of so keen a personal interest, sets one will become of it fifty or a hundred years hence ? The flowers,with due diligence of division, and replanting and enriching of the soil,will live for ever. The name-plates, with care and protection frombreakage, will also live. But what will these names be one or twogenerations hence ? Will the plants all be there ? And what of theFriendships ? They are something belonging intimately to the lives ofthose now living. What record of them will endure ; or enduring, beof use or comfort to those who come after ? Then one thinks and wonders—what hand, perhaps quite a humbleone—planted the old apple-tree that has its stem now girdled by a rusticseat. Its days are perhaps already numbered ; the top is thin and open,the foliage is spare ; it seems to be beyond fruit-bearing age, and as if ithad scarcely strength to d
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