The Garden 
that We Made 
polyanthus roses, 
“Mrs. Cutbush”; 
behind them there is 
a thick hedge of 
lavender, and behind 
these there are 
Madonna lilies. 
Many people 
think this part of 
the cross-road is the 
prettiest of all — that 
it is our chef cT 'oeuvre 
in gardening. Per- 
ines by the Rose naps they are right. I here is something so well-bred 
and aristocratic about those lilies on their straight, slender 
stems, looking down on the blue lavender blossoms, and 
forming a kind of frame for the pink clusters of roses. We 
pick the lavender blossoms towards the end of July and put 
them in between the household linen ; thus we enjoy them 
the whole year round. 
The Pink 
Flower-Bed. 
Now we have been over a good deal of the garden at 
Sofiero ; but if my readers have the patience to go on, 
there is still more to see. In another corner of the garden 
we have a one-colour scheme in the flower-beds. In one 
bed, for instance, all the flowers are pink. There are so 
many pink blossoms, and they are often difficult to fit in 
with other colours. Here are Sedum fabaria , Rosa horten- 
sior , pink spirtea, pink phlox, pink campions (both the ^ e a r d a s h t ^e 0 s 0 ' u h n c d We!l 
annual and the perennial 
variety), Physostegia vir- 
giniana (sometimes called 
False Dragon Head), which 
is tall, and has the entire 
stalk covered witn flowers. 
The bed is edged with a 
border of pink daisies. 
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