. Some English gardens;. the south-east, and occupying the space next beyond the rosegarden and the end of the lawn adjoining the Castle, is the kitchengarden. The main walks have flower borders. Where the two crosspaths intersect is a Mulberry tree with an encircling seat. The subjectsof the second and third pictures are within the kitchen garden. Many are the beautiful points of view from the kitchen garden, forthere the grand yew hedges show beyond the flowers ; then, toweringaloft, comes the fairy castle, and then fine trees ; for trees are allaround, closely approaching the gardens bounda
. Some English gardens;. the south-east, and occupying the space next beyond the rosegarden and the end of the lawn adjoining the Castle, is the kitchengarden. The main walks have flower borders. Where the two crosspaths intersect is a Mulberry tree with an encircling seat. The subjectsof the second and third pictures are within the kitchen garden. Many are the beautiful points of view from the kitchen garden, forthere the grand yew hedges show beyond the flowers ; then, toweringaloft, comes the fairy castle, and then fine trees ; for trees are allaround, closely approaching the gardens boundaries. The brilliancy of colour masses in these Scottish gardens is some-thing remarkable. Whether it is attributable to soil or climate onecannot say ; possibly the greater length of day, and therefore of dailysunshine, of these northern summers, may account for it. Of the greatnumber of people who go North for the usual autumn shooting, those 44 CRATHES from the picture in the possession ofMr. George C. Bomias m h fe^l^. who love the summer flowers find their season doubled, for the kinds theyhave left waning in the South are not yet in bloom in the more northernlatitude. The flowers of our July gardens. Delphiniums, Achilleas,Coreopsis, Eryngiums, Geums, Lupines, Scarlet Lychnis, Bergamot,early Phloxes, and many others, and the hosts of spring-sown annuals,are just in beauty. Sweet Peas are of astounding size and vigour. Straw-berries are not yet over, and early Peas are coming in. The Gooseberryseason, that had begun in the earliest days of August with the EarlySulphurs and had been about ten days in progress in the Southern Englishgardens, is for a time interrupted, but resumes its course in September inthe North, where this much-neglected fruit comes to unusual is a hardy thing, and appears to thrive better north of the Border thanelsewhere. It is one of the wholesomest of fruits ; its better sorts of trulydelicious flavour. It is a pleasure, to one who knows
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