i88 How to Make a Flower Garden 



but made fine growth for the following year. The blossoms were all different, 

 the large one white with cerise center, one pure white, and the other a lovely- 

 pink with a deeper center. 



Freesias — sweet, dainty surprises that they are ! We always marvel 

 when the buds come out from among the grass-like foliage, then swell and 

 burst into the exquisite yellow, bell-shaped flowers. From our six bulbs 

 we had thirty-four branches of bloom, giving us six weeks of dehght in 

 their spicy odour. 



The whiteness of the Poeticus Ornatus is equalled only by the dogwood 

 of spring, and Nature certainly used her finest paint-brush when she painted 

 the delicate crimson line on the edge of the cup. 



We were a little doubtful about the Narcissus gloriosns, as we had never 

 seen it, but we are friends for life now, for nothing could be lovelier than 

 the long stalk surmounted by fourteen little blossoms with their deep orange 

 cup and cream-white perianth. We asked our little daughter to smell 

 them, and she immediately said, "Apple sauce." Could anything describe 

 their fragrance better? 



Then the Horsfieldii, with its long, yellow trumpet and creamy perianth 

 — a flower truly fit for the gods ! The perianth measures three and one-half 

 inches in diameter, and the trumpet one and one-half inches long. 



Abutilon blooms nearly all the time, and hehotrope, when it once starts, 

 is not far behind. 



As the plants came into bud we gave them fertiliser in liquid form once 

 every week or two, and twice during the winter worked a little of the dry 

 food into the earth, being careful not to get it too near the roots. 



A Kenilworth ivy and two kinds of asparagus — .4. Sproigeri in a hanging 

 basket and .4. plnmosus on a bracket — completed our garden. That is all, 

 except that we feel we have summer always with us. 



