Planning the Paths 
and the Flower-Beds 
Our first work here was to make 
two broad paths running at right 
angles, forming a cross. Most of the 
fruit trees were allowed to remain ; 
only those that stood in the way of 
the paths were felled. And on both 
sides of the two paths we made long- 
stretching flower-beds. A few newly- 
planted fruit trees were removed (with 
a generous lump of soil) to more 
suitable spots in the garden. 1 he 
grass-tufts were replaced by a regular 
lawn beneath some of the old fruit 
trees. Though it is not supposed to 
be good for the fruit trees to have 
grass next to the stem, we could not 
The lovely blooms of ° . . . . - 
the Frau Kiri Druschki resist having an uninterrupted lawn. 
roses. <-> 1 
The effect is so picturesque that we defended our design 
on aesthetic grounds. 
A Novel Form of 
Background. 
The large flower-beds on each side of the broad middle Dorothy Perkins and 
0 ill Wichuriana Roses 
path were about five yards deep. Here the fiowers should climbing over the 
i ✓ I sloping Urass Bank. 
live and have their being. 
While they were being 
arranged, it occurred to us 
that Scania is a land of 
strong gales, and that the 
flowers that like gales are 
few and far between. 
What was to be done ? 
A regular wall would look 
clumsy ; a hedge would 
absorb too much nourish- 
ment from the soil. Then 
we suddenly remembered 
an espalier we had seen in 
a garden in England that 
