THE GARDEN AT HOME 



Rock Cress and Snow in Summer, of rose-coloured 

 Alpine Phlox and lovely purple, white, yellow and blue 

 Tufted Pansies, will fling their flower tresses over the 

 harsh coping and fall even to the water surface, there to 

 be reflected with an added glory. 



What opportunities even a garden seat offers for 

 the creation of an exquisite miniature ! Paint it white, 

 cover it with a rustic arch, draping this with a riot 

 of pink clustering rose, or yellow rose and purple 

 Clematis, throng the neighbouring beds with fragrant 

 Musk and Mignonette, with Lavender and Pinks and 

 China Roses, and the garden seat is no longer a mere 

 resting-place for tired feet, but a garden home, fair and 

 fragrant from within, fairer and still more fragrant from 

 without. 



Place a sundial on a large grass plot and it is a soul- 

 less thing ; raise it on a little green mound, forming the 

 pivot of a wheel of brick-paved walks, each spoke 

 stone-edged and flower-clustered, and how great a charm 

 possesses it ! Fill the wheel spaces between the spokes 

 with all that is fairest among summer flowers, with Ten- 

 week Stocks, with Fleur-de-lys, with Lupines, Bergamot 

 and Geum, with Sweet Williams and Bellflowers, Poppies 

 and Paeonies, and there, if anywhere in a garden, shall 

 you hear the fairies whisper as the breezes fragrant blow. 



A plain, red-bricked house has few claims to beauty, 

 yet " half revealed and half concealed " by the trembling 

 twigs of Aspen or Silver Birch, or seen through the gaps 



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