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Caption: Dedication - Allerton Park
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Seen above are the Park greenhouses, long, low, and resting comfortably in a garden of dipped privet, which is set out formally in long rows and large squares and kept tidily clipped at all tirm Although used mainly for giving plants a pre-season start, the greenhouses occasionally offer a brilliant display of their own, such as the chrysanthemums, which are at their best in October. The path to the greenhouses leads from the •Spring Garden, at the northwest end of the lake. In this area there is a succession of bloom from the time when the first spring crocus appears until the fall-flowering crocus. The southeast side of the garden is heavily planted with crocus, narcissus, grape hyacinth, and wild flowers, including violets, spring-beauty, wild hyacinth, and dogtooth violets. Near the spring a substantial planting of lil>of-thc-vallcy interspersed with rushes and delicate blue-flowered forget-me-nots add much to the garden's beauty. A picni( area is found around the outer edge of the Spring Garden close to the meadow and convenient to drinking water and toilet facilities. The little shepherdess and her dog ornament a small glen near the Gat* House and greet passcrs-!>\ using the m tad to Allerton House, m **<*SM
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