A Little Maryland Garden = 75 
children at play. When I drove past them 
I always wanted to build walls myself. 
So it was an amusing experience to build 
across the lower end of the peach-tree bed 
and to make a long wall for the new bulb 
border. Within these the level of the bed 
could be raised well above the surrounding soil, 
and this is very desirable in my moist garden. 
In the peach-tree bed I set clove pinks 
against the stones. I love their spicy smell 
and feathery foliage and soft bright colours. 
I have read lately that ‘‘in Spain and Portu- 
gal, where carnations and clove pinks are 
very favourite flowers, they are almost al- 
ways planted so as to hang down, either 
over a wall, or over the edges of pots.”” This 
gave me a new idea with regard to them, and 
this summer I am going to have large potsful 
of them sitting in the sun. The Spanish in 
California always seem to have deep red 
carnations, and the girls pin them in their 
dark hair; so that their rich clove smell 
makes me think of moonlight nights, strum- 
ming guitars, and Spanish voices. 
