That at the back of the cottage, sheltered by a high, close board fence covered with Virginia creeper, was given over to vegetables, and it was quite marvellous how, under Richard Dunbar's care, a quarter of an acre of ground could grow such enormous quantities of vegetables of all kinds.

Next to the vegetable garden came the plot for small fruits--strawberries, raspberries, currants, of rare varieties.
The front garden was devoted to flowers.

Here were to be found the old fashioned flowers dear to our grandmothers, and more particularly the old fashioned flowers native to English and Scottish soil.

Between the two gardens a thick row of tall, splendid sunflowers made a stately hedge.

Then came larkspur, peonies, stocks, and sweet-williams, verbenas and mignonette, with borders of lobelia and heliotrope.