Planning the Paths 

 and the Flower-Beds 



The lovely blooms of 

 the Frau Karl Druschki 

 roses. .M^_ 



Our first work here was to make 

 two broad paths running at right 

 angles, forming a cross. Most of the 

 fruit trees were allowed to remain ; 

 only those that stood in the way of 

 the paths were felled. And on both 

 sides of the two paths we made long- 

 stretching flower-beds. A few newly- 

 planted fruit trees were removed (with 

 a generous lump of soil) to more 

 suitable spots in the garden. The 

 grass-tufts were replaced by a regular 

 lawn beneath some of the old fruit 

 trees. Though it is not supposed to 

 be good for the fruit trees to have 

 grass next to the stem, we could not 

 resist having an uninterrupted lawn. 



The effect is so picturesque that we defended our design 



on sesthetic grounds. 



A Novel Form of 

 Background. 



The large flower-beds on each side of the broad middle 

 path were about five yards deep. Here the flowers should 

 live and have their being. 

 While they were being 

 arranged, it occurred to us 

 that Scania is a land of 

 strong gales, and that the 

 flowers that like gales are 

 few and far between. 

 What was to be done ? 

 A regular wall would look 

 clumsy ; a hedge would 

 absorb too much nourish- 

 ment from the soil. Then 

 we suddenly remembered 

 an espalier we had seen in 

 a garden in England that 



Dorothy Perkins 

 Wichuriana R 

 climbing over 

 sloping Grass B; 



and 

 OSes 



the 

 ank. 



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