For
gardens (speaking of those which are indeed princelike, as we have done of buildings), the contents ought not well to be under thirty acres of ground; and to be divided into three parts; a green in the entrance; a heath or desert in the going forth; and the main
garden in the midst; besides alleys on both sides.
There were
gardens and paths and big trees, but everything looked dull and wintry.
"Well, why didn't the man cry out or anything?" asked the doctor; "sabres in
gardens are certainly unusual."
The reason is that he escaped from being a human when he was seven days' old; he escaped by the window and flew back to the Kensington
Gardens.
For the Kensington
Gardens, you must know, are full of short cuts, familiar to all who play there; and the shortest leads from the baby in long clothes to the little boy of three riding on the fence.
Every afternoon, as they were coming from school, the children used to go and play in the Giant's
garden.
May 7th.--I love my
garden. I am writing in it now in the late afternoon loveliness, much interrupted by the mosquitoes and the temptation to look at all the glories of the new green leaves washed half an hour ago in a cold shower.
McGregor's
garden," and described how he had been chased about the
garden, and had dropped his shoes and coat.
Once when he was sitting on his
garden wall, smoking a pipe in the evening, an Italian organ- grinder came round with a monkey on a string.
"I must work the garden--I must work the
garden," I said to myself, five minutes later, as I waited, upstairs, in the long, dusky sala, where the bare scagliola floor gleamed vaguely in a chink of the closed shutters.
But the girl seldom failed to propose a removal to the
garden, where Uncle Venner and the daguerreotypist had made such repairs on the roof of the ruinous arbor, or summer-house, that it was now a sufficient shelter from sunshine and casual showers.
In a villa on the westward shore of the Isle of Wight, the glass doors which lead from the drawing-room to the
garden are yet open.