The Garden 
that We Made 
Part of 
Borders 
Garden. 
the Flower 
in the Third 
path is planted with white saxifraga, the leaves of which 
form a lovely green carpet round the grey, flat stones of 
the path, while the blossoms raise their graceful heads on 
tall slender stems. Daisies are put there to fill up empty 
bits of space in between the stones. But as this is a 
plant that spreads profusely, one must keep it in check so 
that it occupies no space which it does not adorn. 
The whole rockery — about ten yards square — took a 
month to finish ; while it now 
looks as if it had been a rockery 
from time immemorial. 
A Garden in a 
Pine Forest. 
The third garden I w T ant to 
describe is situated in a pine 
forest in the Archipelago, where 
one has to battle with great odds 
as regards the weather ; the gales 
are strong, the frost lasts till late 
in the spring, and the soil is 
poor. The garden is in two 
sections. One consists of a rose- 
bed with a border of violets and 
a carpet of Viola cornuta running 
along the walls of the house. 
On a terrace facing the sea are 
Iceland poppies and foxgloves. 
On every available spot of 
ground they have planted them- 
selves, and look entrancing' 
amongst heather and pine trees. 
The other part of the garden consists of a very pretty 
flower and vegetable plot, the flowers being in long beds 
bordering the paths, and the vegetables in the big spaces 
behind these flower-beds. 
In the background is a giant rock, as if it had been put 
there in order to protect the garden from the north wind. 
And at the foot of the rock there is, in the spring, an array 
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