A WOMEN'S HOBBY
TRANSFORMED CLIFF
A woman's hobby, which bceumo her life's work, has transformed a pliff into a paradise of flowers and plants, states an English writer. An aroii. of nettles, bracken, and gorso at t>cu. Cliff, Strete, Devon, has been made by Miss Amy Toll, member of a family of lauded proprietors of Dartmouth, into a remarkable garden ol! rare flowers and plants. The work lias occupied Miss Toll foe about 30 years. She roamed the Coutinent and found flowers .and plants which havo flourished in hor cliff garden. Other flowers and plants and miniature trees, seldom found in England, woro imported by her from: Japan and Africa.
With this collection of rare horticultural specimens Miss Toll hybridised old plants and those typically, English, and new varieties have boeu evolved. Professional and amateur gardenors greatly admiro tho results of Miss Toll's horticultural enthusiasm.
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Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 51, 29 August 1934, Page 15
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145A WOMEN'S HOBBY Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 51, 29 August 1934, Page 15
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