of the extreme value of personal effort combined with knowledge and good
taste.
These qualities may operate in different gardens in a hundred varying
ways, but where they exist there will be, in some form or other, a
delightful garden. Endless are the possibilities of beautiful
combinations of flowers; just as endless is their power of giving
happiness and the very purest of human delight. So also the special
interest of different gardens that are personally directed by owners of
knowledge and fine taste would seem to be endless too, for each will
impress upon it some visible issue of his own perception or discernment
of beauty.
About the house and lawns are other beds and borders of herbaceous
flowers of good grouping and fine growth; conspicuous among them is that
excellent flower _Campanula pyramidalis_, splendidly grown.
Though Blyborough is in a cold district, it has the advantage of lying
well sheltered below a sharply-rising ridge of higher land.