The Garden 
that We Made 
and little cottage belonging 
to our children. They 
attend to the ground, dig, 
plant, water, and weed it 
themselves. 
And not only that, they 
even made a rockery of 
their own, having found out 
what a source of pleasure a 
rockery is. That is, of 
course, a miniature one, with plants 
rockery, partly wild flowers that have < 
of their own accord, and wild flowers 
found in the woods and alonsf hedsfe-rows. 
partly from our 
jrown there just 
that they have 
As I mentioned 
of the 
cottage 
is their kitchen garden, with potatoes, 
A pale blue Clematis: 
lanuginosa. 
carrots, radishes and strawberries. But I am telling you 
more about this in another chapter. 
And now we have walked through the entire garden at 
Sofiero. If any of my readers have been helped or inspired 
by this one walk, and more especially if, in ever such a 
modest way, my description 
has been any aid to a be- 
ginner in gardening, I shall 
not have written in vain. 
A Lilium Auratum 
among Rhododendrons. 
in another article, wherever they find a pretty wild flower, 
they immediately transplant it to the rockery, where every- 
thing seems to thrive and flourish. The garden, with 
a neat little fence, forms a typical setting to a country 
cottage, and outside the fence is the rockery very appro- 
priately arranged on the slope of the hill. 
The flowers in their little garden are all easy to culti- 
vate, and all yield a number of blossoms : tall annual 
sunflowers, marigolds, cornflowers, poppies, zinnias, asters, 
and geraniums, and, of course, nasturtium?. At the back 
One Word 
of Advice. 
Never despair about any- 
thing in your garden though 
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