The cottages and the village life of rural England (1912)
Ditchfield, P. H. (Peter Hampson), 1854-1930, Quinton, A.R · London, J.M. Dent & sons ltd.; New York, E.P. Dutton & co. · leaf 183
d bright, and we trust that nocold winds or late frosts may come to blight the prospect of agood fruit harvest. God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb,and often in the sheltered garden of a cottage the fruit sets andgrows and ripens far better than in the more exposed rectorypleasance, and brings… … NORTON, NEAR EVESHAM, WORCESTER This cottage at Norton, in the Vale of Evesham, shows a remark-able triumph of topiary art, a yew-tree cut into a series of ascendingglobes and crowned by a peacock. The cottager is very proud ofthis ornament to his garden, and also may well be satisfied withhis…
Architecture, Domestic · Villages
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