The Garden 

 that We Made 



And the Slope was Carpeted 

 with more Roses. 



On the slope between 

 the already-mentioned yew 

 hedge and this lower terrace 

 is a luxuriant carpet of roses 

 — the pink Dorothy Perkins 

 and the white JVichitriaiia ; 

 they climb up the little 

 slope and look so happy 

 and comfortable basking in 

 the sunlight and flowering abundantly. 



These particular roses are especially suitable for 

 covering and clothing any bit of ground. In our garden 

 they climb along a grassy slope, but they appear to even 

 greater advantage when they are allowed to ramble as 

 they please over a bare bleak hill-top. The JVichiLrianas 

 are among the loveliest of roses, and they are to be had in 

 so many colours; and, in addition, their dark, shiny little 

 leaves are always very pretty. 



How we Transformed the 

 Kitchen Garden. 



Having accomplished the remaking of our garden on 

 one side of the house, we set to work on the large rect- 

 angular orchard or kitchen garden — I really do not know 

 which to call it. For when I first saw it, it was full of old 

 fruit trees, beneath which the grass grew in rank tufts. A 

 few rows of gooseberry, raspberry, and currant bushes, and 

 a few vegetables completed the plantation. There was not 

 a proper path anywhere — just a meandering down-trodden 

 track studded here and there 

 with huge boulders, over which 

 one had to find one's way as 

 best one could. Yet it was 

 easy to see that the place was 

 eminently suitable for a regular 

 garden, with a kind of orchard- 

 like appearance. 



The Flagged Paving by 

 the Well. 



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