OUR SENTIMENTAL GARDEN 

 The Dorothy Perkins are coming out, showing a most 

 glorious kind of fire rose, which hitherto they only dis- 

 played in the autumn after a touch of frost. Combined 

 with the delicate sprays of the 

 Ceanothus Gloire de Versailles, 

 they make in a tall glass vase 

 as pretty a harmony as we 

 know. 



The new Rose Garden pro- 

 mises complete success. Caro- 

 line Testout is coming out, fat 

 and pink and smiling in her 

 usual good humoured pro- 

 fusion. We have a great bed 

 in the shape of a Maltese cross 

 in the middle of a stretch of 

 turf in this new Rose Garden, 

 and the other three beds are 

 filled respectively with Madame 

 Abel Chatenay/ mixed yellow 

 roses, among which are Betty, 

 Lady Hillingdon, and Juliet, 

 are specially successful,- and 

 another deep pink charmer 

 named Madame Jules Groles. She has not yet come out. 

 The centre bed is devoted to General MacArthur, with a 

 Crimson Rambler pillar. 



The Climbing Roses against the arches that bound this 

 rose-lawn north and south are growing bravely / and we 

 have lost our hearts to May Queen with its mass of 

 bright pink flowers, which, combined with the fainter, 

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