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The Charm of Gardens

Chapter 2: LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
By Dion Clayton Calthrop
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The author offers an affectionate series of essays that intertwine personal memories, sensory descriptions, and practical reflections on English gardens, rural lanes, cottage plots, orchards, and town green spaces. Historical sketches examine Roman gardening, patron saints of gardeners, and horticultural writers, while a month-by-month kalendarium provides seasonal observations. Later pieces consider trees, roses, garden paths, churchyards, and the moods gardens evoke—comfort, memory, and quiet contemplation—balancing anecdote, horticultural lore, and aesthetic meditation in evocative prose illustrated with color plates.

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

1. The Lake Garden, Ayscough Fee Hall, Spalding Frontispiece
 
    Facing page
 
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