The Garden 

 that We Made 



By the large Pond. 



Beside the 

 Pond. 



Where the valley- 

 ends is what we call our 

 "tea terrace"; it is by 

 the side of a large pond 

 that we had made some 

 years ago ; and there are 

 now both gold fish and 

 trout in that pond. 



Amongst the flowers 

 by the pond there are notably : iris kcempfcri, the Japanese 

 iris, which is the iris par pi^ef^rence, but which requires 

 some amount of patience, for it seldom blooms until its 

 second year ; but one is so much the happier when its 

 flowers at length appear. In addition, there are bright 

 rose-coloured spireea, bamboo, day lilies, Solomon's seal, 

 giant seakale with tall stems bearing hundreds of little 

 white blossoms, and foxgloves with yellow flowers, a 

 perennial variety of this well-known plant which otherwise 

 is usually bi-annual. In addition to these we hunted up 

 some wild plants, such as the cuckoo pint, heather, the 

 wild foxglove, willow herb, and so on, and put them 

 amongst the garden flowers. 



This "tea terrace" down in the valley is so very 

 sheltered that the bamboo plants and the pampas grass 

 have suffered neither from gales nor frosts, but have stood 

 here for years without losing any of their glory. 



The lawn is studied with magnolia trees in pure snowy 

 glory, and very sweet, though somewhat capricious blossoms. 

 The flame flower ( Tropcsolum spcciosttm) climbs gaily over 

 the boulders, and gladdens us with its fiery show of 

 blossoms. Its roots resemble those of the sugar plant, and 

 should preferably be planted fairly deep down between two 

 large stones, so that the roots are kept cool while the 

 flowers are permitted to bask in the sunlight. It is a 

 perennial, but it very often makes a scanty appearance the 

 first year, in order to shine so much the more the next. 



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