Our Children and 

 Their Flowers 



And 

 serious 

 even in 



Water-Can is a 



responsibility, 



a Royal Garden! 



The Flowers 

 the Children 

 Planted. 



Flowers 

 were put in 

 front of the 

 cottage. A 

 path had 

 already been 

 laid out, and 

 the children 

 paved it 

 themselves. 

 When that 

 was done, 



they asked for arches over their three litde gates; 

 and they got them. So one was covered with yellow 

 nasturtiums, the second with wild vine, and the third 

 with hops. When the latter is in blossom, in August, 

 it is really beautiful, and the combined effect is very 

 charming. 



The flowers were arranged in squares. Each kind 

 should have its own bed, just as we had it in the big 

 garden. Here were now sown poppies, mignonette (because 

 of the lovely scent), the brilliant oriental-looking zinnia, 

 asters, pansies, antirrhinums of every available colour, 

 heliotrope, and the stately sunflower. Last of all, a clump 

 of the pretty, more or less perennial daisy. 



Specialities in my Little 

 Girl's Garden. 



Pink and white roses 

 were then planted on either 

 side of the cottage steps. 

 I do not know why, but roses 

 grow and blossom most pro- 

 fusely in the children's gar- 

 den. In many ways they 

 do much better there than 

 in our own garden, where 



One of th 

 beside the 

 Celtidifolia. 



children 

 Campanula 



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