The Garden 

 that We Made 



A pale blue Clematis: 

 lanuginosa. 



and little cottage belonging 

 to our children. They 

 attend to the ground, dig, 

 plant, water, and weed it 

 themselves. 



And not only that, they 

 even made a rockery of 

 their own, having found out 

 what a source of pleasure a 

 rockery is. That is, of 



course, a miniature one, with plants partly from our 

 rockery, partly wild flowers that have grown there just 

 of their own accord, and wild flowers that they have 

 found in the woods and along hedge-rows. As I mentioned 

 in another article, wherever they find a pretty wild flower, 

 they immediately transplant it to the rockery, where every- 

 thing seems to thrive and flourish. The garden, with 

 a neat little fence, forms a typical setting to a country 

 cottage, and outside the fence is the rockery very appro- 

 priately arranged on the slope of the hill. 



The flowers in their little garden are all easy to culti- 

 vate, and all yield a number of blossoms : tall annual 

 sunflowers, marigolds, cornflowers, poppies, zinnias, asters, 

 and geraniums, and, of course, nasturtium?. At the back 

 of the cottage is their kitchen garden, with potatoes, 

 carrots, radishes and strawberries. But I am telling you 

 more about this in another chapter. 



And now we have walked through the entire garden at 

 Sofiero. If any of my readers have been helped or inspired 

 by this one walk, and more especially if, in ever such a 



modest way, my description 

 has been any aid to a be- 

 ginner in gardening, I shall 

 not have written in vain. 



One Word 

 of Advice. 



Never despair about any- 

 thing in your garden though 



A Lilium Auratum 

 among Rhododendrons. 



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