The Garden 

 that We Made 



Roses, 

 Lilies 

 Pergola, 



Lavender 

 by_ the 



and 

 Rose 



polyanthus roses, 

 "Mrs. Cutbush" ; 

 behind them there is 

 a thick hedge of 

 lavender, and behind 

 these there are 

 Madonna lilies. 



Many people 

 think this part of 

 the cross-road is the 

 prettiest of all — that 

 it is our chef d'a^iivre 

 in gardening. Per- 

 haps they are right. There is something so well-bred 

 and aristocratic about those lilies on their straight, slender 

 stems, looking down on the blue lavender blossoms, and 

 forming a kind of frame for the pink clusters of roses. W^e 

 pick the lavender blossoms towards the end of July and put 

 them in between the household linen ; thus we enjoy them 

 the whole year round. 



The Pink 

 Flower-Bed. 



Now we have been over a good deal of the garden at 

 Sofiero ; but if my readers have the patience to go on, 

 there is still more to see. In another corner of the garden 

 we have a one-colour scheme in the flower-beds. In one 

 bed, for instance, all the flowers are pink. There are so 

 many pink blossoms, and they are often difficult to fit in 

 with other colours. Here are Scdum fabaria, Rosa horten- 

 sior, pink spirsea, pink phlox, pink campions (both the 

 annual and the perennial 

 variety), Physostegia vir- 

 giniana (sometimes called 



which 

 entire 



flowers. 



with a 



The Path from the Well 

 towards the Sound. 



False Dragon Head), 

 is tall, and has the 

 stalk covered witn 

 The bed is edged 

 border of pink daisies. 



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