The Garden 
that We Made 
a circular patch, where a sundial 
constitutes the centre, with arches 
forming a pergola for Tauscnd- 
schon and Hiawatha roses. 
The end of the path ter- 
minates with a long flower-bed 
in T- fashion, and that flower-bed 
is edged with irregular cobble- 
stones. 
And, by the way, we usually 
edge our flower-beds at Sofiero 
in the same manner — a plan I 
strongly recommend. 
In this T-shaped bed there is 
' a row of standard roses, on a 
carpet of red primroses in the 
front and spirrna at the back. 
rock stands an Oak, The rest of the bed is planted as follows : in the front 
and beside it a Rockery i • • i r in i r ff 
is being made. are aubretia, ivy-leal toacl-flax or “mother ol millions, 
violets, and a low-stemmed white saxifraga, periwinkle, and 
different kinds of stone-crops. 
Then, behind those, stand several plants of medium 
height, as, for instance, myosotis, auricula, calendula, 
giant lilies-of-the-valley, blue iris, daisies, anthcricum 
liliastrum or “St. Bruno’s lily” (a white lily-like plant 
with pretty foliage), erythronium (a very sweet and 
rather uncommon plant with orchid-like blossoms, which 
flowers early), foxgloves, mignonette, early marguerites, 
and so on. 
As a background to the flower-bed, along the fence 
which surrounds the garden, stand taller plants such as 
tall Darwin-tulips, sweet peas, late asters, hollyhocks, and 
autumn chrysanthemums. 
The Little 
Rockery. 
On a slip of slightly-sloping ground at the end of the 
garden is a little rockery arranged there in place of some 
tangled old gooseberry bushes. The soil was perfect. It 
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