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growing fast and tall, or the pretty Two-flowered 

 Everlasting Pea {Lathyrus grandiflorvs), a perennial 

 of about the height of the Sweet Pea. This 

 pretty plant is shown at the cottage door (page 47). 

 And then there are the grand Nasturtiums, for 

 hanging down from boxes or for growing up spray, 

 or for clothing the ground with their gorgeous 

 bloom, so splendid of colouring in latest autumn. 

 And a plant that should not be forgotten is the 

 Box-thorn or Tea-tree, often used to cover cottage 

 porches or to make arbours. It is a fast-growing, 

 slightly thorny shrub throwing out long arching 

 sprays. The foliage is neat and the flowers rather 

 pretty though not conspicuous. It will grow in 

 almost pure sand. 



People who are handy and ingenious and 

 willing to take trouble can do all sorts of delightful 

 things in the garden. If such a case as the 

 temporary ownership of a small garden in sandy 

 soil had been my own, I should not only have 

 put up trellis shelters and arbour frames, but I 

 should have arranged to cover their winter bare- 

 ness and provide the garden space with some kind 

 of winter shelter. Where there is a sandy soil 

 there are probably large plantations of Scotch Fir. 

 I should set about finding out if I could get a 

 few Scotch Fir trees — thinnings of a plantation or 

 loppings of lower branches of trees on common 

 lands, and I should cut them up into large branches 



