The most extensive and elaborate combination was a row of flower sofas reaching around the garden.
Each was from 20 to 30 feet in length.

The seat was wrought in geraniums of every tint, all grown to an even, compact surface, presenting figures as diversified as the alternating hues could produce.

The back was worked in taller flowers, presenting the same evenness of line and surface.

On entering the garden gate and catching the first sight of these beautiful structures, you take them for veritable sofas, as perfectly wrought as anything was ever done in Berlin wool.
Ripon is an interesting little city, with a fact-roll of history reaching back into the dimmest centuries of the land.

It has run the gauntlet of all the Saxon, Danish, Scotch and Norman raids and regimes.