Good hardy flowers are everywhere in abundance. Specially beautiful in
the later summer is a grand pink Hollyhock of strong free habit, with
the flowers of that best of all shapes--with wide, frilled outer petals
and centres not too tightly packed.
It would be interesting work for some one with a knowledge of the garden
design of the past three centuries in England to try to reconstruct the
original plan of some one time. Though on the ground the various
remaining portions of the older work cannot be pieced together, yet, if
these were put on paper to proper scale, it might be possible to come to
some general conclusions as to the way in which the garden was
originally, and again perhaps subsequently, laid out. Some of the
remaining portions of the older work of quite different dates may now
seem to be of the same age, but the expert would probably be able to
discriminate. The result of such a study would be worth having even if
actual reconstruction were not contemplated.