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Where paths cross at right angles in the kitch- 

 en-garden I have erected two quadruple sets of 

 arches. One has at its four corners climbing 

 Kaiserin Augusta Victoria, Perle des Jardins, 

 Marechal Niel, and Beaute Lyonnaise, and the 

 other climbing La France, Captain Christy, Mrs. 

 W. J. Grant, and Waltham Climber. On another 

 single arch I have planted Gruss an Teplitz and 

 Marguerite Appert. They have all flowered and 

 next year I hope I will make a good show. Perle 

 des Jardins I thought particularly beautiful and a 

 serious competitor with the Marechal, whose 

 flower it resembles. 



At the end of the month the roses have finished 

 flowering; but a second crop of Canterbury bells 

 is coming on, seeing which I went patiently 

 through the long job of snipping off all the dead 

 flowers of the first crop, one by one. 



Three rows of sweet-peas I had cut down with 

 shears to about half their height, trimming in also 

 the sides, and they are now responding to the 

 treatment with a fresh crop of flowers. The 

 carnations have been most prolific, too, and the 

 Antirrhinums equally so. 



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