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pensive care, as we really do most of the work ourselves, with the 

 help of a little boy we are training. 



"Therefore both gardens on the two sides of the lawn have 

 irises of varying colors, as all the flowers I have, almost, have 

 been given to me by my generous gardening friends who have 

 large and beautiful gardens. Against the back fence are the 

 hollyhocks and woodbine. What we have in the principal flower- 

 gardens, which are on both sides of the brick walk from the ter- 

 race and along the west walk, too, are mostly annuals, because I 

 did not wish to get things which I was not sure of, but we have 

 delphinium, phlox Miss Lingard, Jeanne d'Arc, and another 

 white; twelve blue Salvia patens, which I got this year from 

 Dreer, bleeding hearts, which I love, two peonies, which have 

 not bloomed, so I don't know the color, pink cosmos, small 

 Canterbury bells, blue, only they are not Just that variety of 

 campanula. We have Japanese anemones, a lovely old-fash- 

 ioned rose-bush, white, just on the right coming down from the 

 terrace on the west end, and a few other things. 



"This is what we have for vines, but I am not pleased with the 

 selection. I think the idea of having all the vines the same kind, 

 more or less, on a small house, is a good one. On the north front 

 we have the Boston ivy, which has grown nicely; to the left of 

 the front door a wisteria, no sign of blossoms in this its third 

 summer; I think the vine is too heavy for the house. To the 

 right of the front door, on the north wall, climbing up to the 

 balcony, are Hall's honeysuckle and trumpet vine. I don't like 

 these there. On the west wall of the study are grapevines, also 

 on vegetable-garden fence; on the south wall of study the single 

 carmine pillar rose; very pretty, but I would have liked an Eng- 

 lish climbing rose. 



"As to bulbs, last spring I had only jonquils, a dozen Narcis- 

 sus poeticiis, early yeUow tulips, and one dozen brilliant red 



