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A hand flicks through the pages of a garden magazine, intercut with footage of a group of people touring private gardens.
150:30 A pile of House and Garden magazines (one from February 1950); trees and flower beds, possibly in the garden of the filmmaker.
151:14 “Mrs Christies Garden”; women in a bed of irises; close ups of irises; rows of flowering irises (a commercial garden?). Misty bush-covered hills; sign reading ‘Summit Akatarawa’; a bus crossing a rough piece of road; a river. Pan showing a stately mansion and a large lawn; a pond; bluebells under the trees; a water wheel; women around a wishing well; another shot of the mansion; a statue.
152:49 “Longwood”; shots of garden and statues; pan over house and lawn; rhododendrons in flower; two more houses.
153:55 “Plas-Gwyn”; a large group of people walking around the grounds of the house; flower beds.
154:13 “Mr Jamieson’s”; people walking over the lawn around a large house; manicured lawn and an arched walkway.
154:42 “Rathkeale”; pan over a house and lawn, surrounded by trees; pan of the garden, with sheep in the field beyond; a bus stopped at the side of a road and a large group of people gathered for a cup of tea (?).
155:43 A young girl with a budgie on her shoulder; a pan over a house set in manicured lawns surrounded by flower beds; children around a pond.
156:18 Last picture frame.