DOI Heft:
No. 92 (November, 1900)
DOI Artikel:Prior, Edward S.: Garden-making, [2]: the conditions of practice$nElektronische Ressource
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19786#0105
Garden-Making
GARDEN AT BURNESIDE BY A. W1LL1NK
branches do not rob its air, or burrowing roots garden, a sunny wall, a pleasant shade, a seat for
drain its nourishment. Its enclosing walls, 9 feet rest, and all around the sense 01 the flowers, their
high and thatched for coping (see the Exmouth brightness, their fragrance, the hum of the bees
illustration above), will give shade; its angles and the twitter of the birds.
provide arbours and shelter from every wind, so that A square of some 80 yards—about an acre and a
hour by hour, and day after day, there can always be half—as shown in another plan, will give space for
ease and delight in it, and never monotony, as the lawn and flowers, and also for the orchards and
seasons come and go, and cloud and sunshine vegetable garden suited to a small house. The
alternate. Such are the practical pleasures of a central arbour keeps a unity in the whole, while
GARDEN AT BURNESIDE BY A. W1LL1NK
branches do not rob its air, or burrowing roots garden, a sunny wall, a pleasant shade, a seat for
drain its nourishment. Its enclosing walls, 9 feet rest, and all around the sense 01 the flowers, their
high and thatched for coping (see the Exmouth brightness, their fragrance, the hum of the bees
illustration above), will give shade; its angles and the twitter of the birds.
provide arbours and shelter from every wind, so that A square of some 80 yards—about an acre and a
hour by hour, and day after day, there can always be half—as shown in another plan, will give space for
ease and delight in it, and never monotony, as the lawn and flowers, and also for the orchards and
seasons come and go, and cloud and sunshine vegetable garden suited to a small house. The
alternate. Such are the practical pleasures of a central arbour keeps a unity in the whole, while