The Garden 
that We Made 
Patches of 
crocus in the 
a u t u i 
grass. 
And the Slope was Carpeted 
with more Roses. 
On the slope between 
the already-mentioned yew 
hedge and this lower terrace 
is a luxuriant carpet of roses 
— the pink Dorothy Perkins 
and the white Wichuriana ; 
they climb up the little 
slope and look so happy 
and comfortable basking in 
the sunlight and flowering abundantly. 
These particular roses are especially suitable for 
covering and clothing any bit of ground. In our garden 
they climb along a grassy slope, but they appear to even 
greater advantage when they are allowed to ramble as 
they please over a bare bleak hill-top. The Wichurianas 
are among the loveliest of roses, and they are to be had in 
so many colours; and, in addition, their dark, shiny little 
leaves are always very pretty. 
i 2 
How we Transformed the 
Kitchen Garden. 
Having accomplished the remaking of our garden on 
one side of the house, we set to work on the large rect- 
angular orchard or kitchen garden — I really do not know 
which to call it. For when I first saw it, it was full of old 
fruit trees, beneath which the grass grew in rank tufts. A 
few rows of gooseberry, raspberry, and currant bushes, and 
a few vegetables completed the plantation. There was not 
a proper path anywhere — just a meandering down-trodden [ h h e e ^, £ged Paving by 
track studded here and there 
with huge boulders, over which 
one had to find one’s way as 
best one could. Yet it was 
easy to see that the place was 
eminently suitable for a regular 
garden, with a kind of orchard- 
like appearance. 
