Our Children and 
Their Flowers 
And a Water- Can is a 
serious responsibility, 
even in a Royal Garden ! 
The Flowers 
the Children 
Planted. 
Flowers 
were put in 
front of the 
cottage. A 
p a t h had 
already been 
laid out, and 
the children 
paved it 
themselves. 
When that 
was done, 
they asked for arches over their three little gates; 
and they got them. So one was covered with yellow 
nasturtiums, the second with wild vine, and the third 
with hops. When the latter is in blossom, in August, 
it is really beautiful, and the combined effect is very 
charming. 
The flowers were arranged in squares. Each kind 
should have its own bed, just as we had it in the big 
garden. Here were now sown poppies, mignonette (because 
of the lovely scent), the brilliant oriental-looking zinnia, 
asters, pansies, antirrhinums of every available colour, 
heliotrope, and the stately sunflower. Last of all, a clump 
of the pretty, more or less perennial daisy. 
One of the children 
beside the Campanula 
Celtidifolia. 
Specialities in my Little 
Girl’s Garden. 
Pink and white roses 
were then planted on either 
side of the cottage steps. 
I do not know why, but roses 
grow and blossom most pro- 
fusely in the children’s gar- 
den. In many ways they 
do much better there than 
in our own garden, where 
