MAKING THE GARDEN 13 



Whiteheart, Morello, May Duke, Elton, Eigarreau 

 Napoleon, Governor Wood. 



My first idea was to grow the trees in the 

 grass. But four years ago, as they seemed to need 

 a little help, I trenched the ground about them, 

 planting potatoes to clean it, and intended to 

 sow it again in grass. It proved, however, so 

 valuable an adjunct to the kitchen garden, and 

 the trees benefited so much by well-worked 

 soil, that it stays in cultivation the homely 

 cabbage and fragrant onion being screened from 

 the house by a thick line of tall Autumn per- 

 ennials, Sweet-peas, and Dahlias. 



Tree-planting came about the same time, 

 some of it even before the house was built. 

 Down the long straight walk, under the western 

 hedge, a line of Limes were put in for shade 

 and shelter, and have grown so vigorously 

 that each alternate one has been moved to the 

 other side of the walk along the edge of the 

 croquet ground, making a charming little 

 avenue. Hard by, in the rough grass, a 

 group of three Horse Chestnuts, two Balsam 

 Poplars, a Scarlet Oak, and three Sycamores, 



