HER AFFECTIONATE

SON-IN-LAW

CONTENTS

PART I
A VIEW OF ENGLAND
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I.The Spirit of Gardens[3]
II.The Garden of England: The Patchwork Quilt[10]
III.A Country Lane: A Memory from Abroad[18]
IV.Fields[23]
V.Episode of the Contented Tailor[27]
VI.The Bluebell Wood and the Calm Stone Dog[35]
VII.The Tailor’s Sister’s Tombstone[42]
VIII.The Cottage Garden[54]
IX.A Feast of Wild Strawberries[64]
X.The Praises of a Country Life[71]
PART II
GARDENS AND HISTORY
I.The Roman Garden in England[75]
II.St. Fiacre, Patron Saint of Gardeners and Cab-Drivers[88]
III.Evelyn’s “Sylva”[96]
PART III
KALENDARIUM HORTENSE[108]
PART IV
GARDEN MOODS
I.Town Gardens[151]
II.The Effect of Trees[163]
III.A Lover of Gardens[182]
IV.Of the Crown of Thorns[185]
V.Of Apples[187]
VI.Of the First Gardener[189]
VII.Of the First Roses[191]
VIII.Of the Abbey Garden[193]
IX.The Olympian Aspect[195]
X.Evening Red and Morning Grey[204]
XI.Garden Promises[213]
XII.Garden Paths[220]
XIII.The Gardens of the Dead[233]

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

1.The Lake Garden, Ayscough Fee Hall, Spalding[Frontispiece]
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2.A Primrose Bank near Dorking[vi]
3.Sir Walter’s Sundial, Abbotsford[9]
4.The Weald of Kent, showing the Country like a Patchwork Quilt[16]
5.Poppies in Surrey[25]
6.Porches grown over with Honeysuckle and Roses at Broadway in the Cotswolds[32]
7.Bluebells in Surrey[41]
8.A Cottage Garden[48]
9.A Surrey Cottage[57]
10.Patches of Heather[64]
11.A Pergola in an English Garden[73]
12.Entrance to the Gardens, Ayscough Fee Hall, Spalding[80]
13.A Cab-Driver in Piccadilly[89]
14.A Wood at Wotton, the Home of John Evelyn[96]
15.Tulips in the “Garden of Peace”[105]
16.Apple Trees[112]
17.Daffodils in a Middlesex Garden[121]
18.A Poet’s Orchard in Kent[128]
19.A Kentish Garden in Autumn[137]
20.A Hampstead Garden in Winter[144]
21.Azaleas in Bloom, Rotten Row[153]
22.In Hyde Park[160]
23.The Seat beneath the Oak in the Poet Laureate’s Garden[169]
24.In the Botanic Garden, Oxford[176]
25.The Pride of Spring, Surrey[185]
26.A Rose Garden in Berkshire[192]
27.A Shepherd of Coniston[201]
28.A Dovecote in a Sussex Garden[208]
29.A Northamptonshire Garden[217]
30.A Path in a Rose Garden[224]
31.A Churchyard in the Cotswolds[235]
32.Autumn Colour at Bonchurch Old Church near Ventnor[238]

PART I
A VIEW OF ENGLAND