OUR SENTIMENTAL GARDEN 



hour of glorious life before the arch enters upon its 



triumph. 



What a mausoleum that Lily Walk has proved itself! It 



has been one of our tragedies ! Adam is quite dispassionate, 



and says " it's the Lily disease / and there's a deal of it 

 about/ 7 -J 



By one'of those freakish /accidents that will occur in the 

 best regulated gardens, a batch of Fairy Lilies was planted 

 behind the ramping Alstrumerias. This was discovered too 

 late, when these bold Peruvians were succumbing. 

 But besides the amount of sickly, straggling " Candidums," 

 " Auratums," and "Tigers" that have disgraced the 

 border, there is the unaccountable number of bulbs that 

 have been swallowed up in it ! The whole thing must 

 be dug out this autumn. And the scheme is now to 

 grow Ceanothus " Gloire de Versailles " up the wooden 

 trellis at the back between the Roses the foliage of which 

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