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Title: The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects
Year: 1874 (1870s)
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Subjects: Ornamental horticulture Horticulture Plants, Ornamental Gardening
Publisher: London : (Gardeners Chronicle)
Contributing Library: UMass Amherst Libraries
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r ever. I tage had windows on both sides of the door, and a1 small narrow plot before each running from the cot-I tage to the road, from which it was separated by a: low fence of rustic palings of split Larch with the bark on. The total area of this plot was small, and though not an inch of it was unoccupied, there was no over-crowding. The brightness of the flowers litI up the front of that cottage to such a degree that no one with eyes could pass it without having his atten- bore testimony to industry, well-direcled labour, andnever-ceasing love for the gentlest of human pursuits.A few years passed by ere I was in that neighbour-hood again. I made a journey to my pet cottage onthe first opportunity ; but, alas ! what a differentsight awaited me ! The bright flowers were all gone ;the neat brightly furnished garden had lost all its dis-tinctiveness; the climbers on the house were eitherdead or dying ; the vegetable garden was mostlyoccupied by weeds ; all was as miserable and forlorn
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Fig. I.—AUiEs lasiocariA (? concolok) at brownsover hai.l, (see i. S.j During the greater part of my walk 1 saw nothingof much interest except the natural beauties of thesurrounding scenery. They, however, were amplefor my delight, and I wandered on, well content to bein the midst of so much that was lovely. I hadnearly reached the limits of my walk when I cameupon a small, decently-kept cottage, apparentlyoccupied by some gentlemans servant (I afterwardsfound it was a coachmans cottage), with a smallgarden in front and on one side, which was absolutelyperfect as an instance of good cultivation. The cot- tion arrested, and the tiibte It was e.xamined the inorethere was found to admirci The cottage itself was covered with a Gloire deiJijon Rose, two kinds of Clematis, and a JapaneseHoneysuckle, except at the extreme limits at bothends, where a small-leaved digitate Ivy, trainedclosely to the wall, acted as the sides of a green-frameto the other plants. The garden at the side of theco

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