The garden that we made . vengreater advantage when they are allowed to ramble asthey please over a bare bleak hill-top. The JVichiLrianasare among the loveliest of roses, and they are to be had inso many colours; and, in addition, their dark, shiny littleleaves are always very pretty. How we Transformed theKitchen Garden. Having accomplished the remaking of our garden onone side of the house, we set to work on the large rect-angular orchard or kitchen garden—I really do not knowwhich to call it. For when I first saw it, it was full of oldfruit trees, beneath which the grass grew in rank tufts
The garden that we made . vengreater advantage when they are allowed to ramble asthey please over a bare bleak hill-top. The JVichiLrianasare among the loveliest of roses, and they are to be had inso many colours; and, in addition, their dark, shiny littleleaves are always very pretty. How we Transformed theKitchen Garden. Having accomplished the remaking of our garden onone side of the house, we set to work on the large rect-angular orchard or kitchen garden—I really do not knowwhich to call it. For when I first saw it, it was full of oldfruit trees, beneath which the grass grew in rank tufts. Afew rows of gooseberry, raspberry, and currant bushes, anda few vegetables completed the plantation. There was nota proper path anywhere—just a meandering down-troddentrack studded here and therewith huge boulders, over whichone had to find ones way asbest one could. Yet it waseasy to see that the place waseminently suitable for a regulargarden, with a kind of orchard-like appearance. The Flagged Paving bythe Digitized by IVIicrosoft® Planning the Pathsand the Flower-Beds P^^^HB ^HP . ^mm - /, -J° •?.?•.,:.??.,??,,.. ?:vl ?.^VVV\ -*>;^ri^%^^.. nvn Hinitiiiiiir-^iiiii^ f ^^-•?:,%*. -?-y^.- \-, , V- ?P^^flto. ^SSHV^HM ^r^ • ^^1 ;-«;^ ??,.; ?; -l©-\; ???-?? ??? 4 i ^^^H| J. n^s The lovely blooms ofthe Frau Karl Druschkiroses. .M^_ Our first work here was to maketwo broad paths running at rightangles, forming a cross. Most of thefruit trees were allowed to remain;only those that stood in the way ofthe paths were felled. And on bothsides of the two paths we made long-stretching flower-beds. A few newly-planted fruit trees were removed (witha generous lump of soil) to moresuitable spots in the garden. Thegrass-tufts were replaced by a regularlawn beneath some of the old fruittrees. Though it is not supposed tobe good for the fruit trees to havegrass next to the stem, we could notresist having an uninterrupted lawn. The effect is so picture
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