The garden that we made . r the fruit trees to havegrass next to the stem, we could notresist having an uninterrupted lawn. The effect is so picturesque that we defended our design on sesthetic grounds. A Novel Form ofBackground. The large flower-beds on each side of the broad middlepath were about five yards deep. Here the flowers shouldlive and have their they were beingarranged, it occurred to usthat Scania is a land ofstrong gales, and that theflowers that like gales arefew and far was to be done ?A regular wall would lookclumsy; a hedge wouldabsorb too much nouris
The garden that we made . r the fruit trees to havegrass next to the stem, we could notresist having an uninterrupted lawn. The effect is so picturesque that we defended our design on sesthetic grounds. A Novel Form ofBackground. The large flower-beds on each side of the broad middlepath were about five yards deep. Here the flowers shouldlive and have their they were beingarranged, it occurred to usthat Scania is a land ofstrong gales, and that theflowers that like gales arefew and far was to be done ?A regular wall would lookclumsy; a hedge wouldabsorb too much nourish-ment from the soil. Thenwe suddenly rememberedan espalier we had seen ina garden in England that Dorothy PerkinsWichuriana Rclimbing oversloping Grass B; andOSes theank. iilK^HKI ..43 |^%^:^.:,:::.--V;.;::^^^ iM!yai%> • ^ ^-^^^?IHiHi^lHiHI HSBiiiib. ^*. ^^^^raMMi n^i:^^:;r-*?;^^tr;^^>^ \:-4-m^ ^^KKM^-*^^ ...-. ???-:??:; Sv ::.ii m^KKm. .tJ Digitized by IVIicrosoft® The Gardenthat We lyiade. The Princess gatheringclimbing White Dorothyroses. The old-fashioned Sun-dial on the south terracestands amidst Helio-Itrope^andlAgeratum. had looked very we had oneerected, with iron poles andwire netting, as a back-ground for our serves the purpose, andis highly decorative coveredwith honeysuckle (both theearly and the later varieties),perennial hops, clematis ofvarious kinds, and the sweet little white jessamine (ararity in Sweden), and Pciiploca gneca, with shining,web-formed leaves. Where the espalier seemed thmlycovered we sowed nasturtiums, just for filling up any^ oddcorner. This is a most effective arrangement, and it allcombines very well indeed. The beds are divided into plots about four yards longand one yard broad. Each variety of plant gets a squareto itself. Bright Flowers are Nearestthe Entrance. We have no definite scheme, but, as a rule, we try tohave the gayest and most brilliant-coloured flowers nearestthe entrance, such as
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