"The carpet-like green lawn was always immaculate, and the flower garden was dazzling with its hydrangeas, pansies, roses, and geraniums."
"But one fine morning Mr. Julian awoke before dawn, seemingly a new man, and worked in his flower garden and bathed in a great iron tub in the washhouse behind the cottage and watched the sun rise and the mullet fly on the bay."
"There was a flower garden and small shrubbery within the so-called moat; but, otherwise, the grounds of Portray Castle were not alluring."