ON A TILED TERRACE 



he desire to have beautiful growing things 

 near us is natural. On a tiled terrace I saw 

 Hp eleven Frau Karl Druschki tree roses, very 

 straight stemmed, with beautiful globular 

 heads, well staked, growing and flowering 

 lavishly in stone jars. Showering exquisitely over the 

 edge of the bowls was trailing alyssum. Four alyssum 

 plants edged a jar fifteen inches in diameter. Each of 

 the rose trees was fed every ten days with a pint of pul- 

 verized sheep fertilizer stirred into the surface and watered 

 with Scotch soot water (the formula of which I will 

 give later). Many flowers and maturing buds were on 

 each tree for more than four months. The globular 

 heads were kept gracefully round by discreet pruning. 

 On this same terrace were jars of Lathyrus White Pearl, 

 sometimes called miniature wistaria. The vines were 

 trained on dear little white, fan-shaped trellises, which 



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