Planning the Paths 

 and the Flower-Beds 



garden seats invite one to rest and enjoy to the full 

 the rose-scented air, while the bees are humming 

 everywhere. 



In the very centre of the garden, just by the cross- 

 roads, i.e., where the two broad paths cross, is an octagonal 

 home-made well, built of sandstone found on our own 

 grounds down by the sea. Everybody who sees it takes it 

 for granted that the well must be very old, and must have 

 stood there for a century at least. For this particular 

 kind of stone contains a quantity of iron-ore and acquires 

 very soon a warm brownish colouring. But truth must be 

 told — our "antique well," alas! was constructed in the 

 year 1 9 1 1 . 



An open space round the 

 well is paved with the same 

 kind of stone, in the corners of 

 which there are little flower- 

 beds, These are somewhat 

 raised, and are edged with 

 low stone walls. This year 

 we had planted these little 

 beds with begonias — a dif- 

 ferent colour in every bed. In 

 former years we once had flax, 

 then we had petunias, and the 

 year after that geraniums — 

 in white and pink varieties. 



On each side of these flower corners we put large red 

 flower-pots with white marguerites — that busy, generous 

 plant which never tires of putting forth fresh blooms. 



In the crevices between the large flagstones of the 

 paved space are white thyme and dwarf campanula. But 

 the large tufts of radiant blue veronica longifolia, that are 

 cropping up everywhere in the crevices, have just planted 

 themselves. They are a gift of Nature ! And so are the 

 daisies, a salmon-pink Dianthus baTbattis, delphinium, and 

 the many golden patches of stonecrop. 



The entire " square " is surrounded with large flower- 



White Phlox 



Nasturtiums 



foreground. 



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