The large open space between the house and the fir plantation had once been laid out as an Italian garden at the cost of much time and money, but Sir Horace Fewbanks had lacked the taste or money to keep it up, and had allowed it to become a luxuriant wilderness, though the sloping parterres and the centre flowerbeds still retained traces of their former beauty.

" MARIGOLDS With a fork drive Nature out, She will ever yet return; Hedge the flowerbed all about, Pull or stab or cut or burn, She will ever yet return.

"Eivé," she said, "has asked the charge of my flowerbed; but I had promised it, and" "And you would rather give it," I answered, "to Eunané?

When relieved from the cares of state and his ambitious plans, and while walking in the winding paths among sparkling fountains and the fragrant flowerbeds, he seemed like a very ordinary man, quiet and reflective, with very good ideas concerning nature and architecture.

Looking up, she saw them approaching straight along the path that led past the flowerbeds.

As Mike arrived, Psmith dropped him onto the flowerbed below.

he said, "the humble pupil acting as a Committee of One has failed utterly to agree with himself as to the form of his new flowerbed.

There is a casino, most artistically planned, with plashing fountains, shady paths, and wonderful flowerbeds.

The windows in it were high up, so that it did not overlook the flowerbeds, and on this torrid afternoon they were all fully open.

A herd of deer dashing wildly over everything, flowerbeds and all, and, yes, absolutely five of them bursting into the house, through one of the drawing-room windows, while JEPSON and the two kirk Ministers emerge hurriedly, terrified, from the other.

Bacon here alludes, I suppose, to the old Dutch fashion of dividing flowerbeds into many compartments, and instead of filling them with flowers, covering one with red brick dust, another with charcoal, a third with yellow sand, a fourth with chalk, a fifth with broken China, and others with green glass, or with spars and ores.

Please pour this (these) suds on the rose plants in the oval flowerbed.