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THE WELL AND THE GARDENER’S COTTAGE.
From a Painting by the Crown Princess of Sweden.

The Garden that We Made

The Crown Princess of Sweden

{Nee The Princess Margaret of Connaught)

NEW YORK:

FREDERICK A. STOKES COMPANY. Publishers.

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Contents

1'a<;e

Preface ......... 5

Planning the Paths and the Flower-Beds . . 7

The Colours in the Flower-Beds . 23

The Waterside Flowers . . ... 29

Making a Rock Garden ..... 37

Other Gardens I have Planned .... 49

Our Children and Their Flowers .... 59

Translated by A. Ch. Settergren.

COLOURED PLATES.

The Flower- Walk in Summer . . . Cover Design

Painted by C. J. Vine from a Photo by A. B . Nilson.

The Well and the Gardener’s Cottage . Frontispiece

From a Painting by the Crown Princess of Sweden.

A Picturesque Bit of the Valley of Sofiero Facing page 16

Front a Painting by the Crown Princess of Sweden.

A Part of a Flower Border in September Facing page 24

From a Painting by the Crown Princess of Sweden.

Some Garden Glimpses .... Facing page 32

From Photos by the Crown Princess of Swedm.

The Rose Pergola ..... Facing page 40

From a Photo by the Crown Princess of Sweden.

The Princess in Her Rock Garden . Facing page 48

Painted by C. J . Vine from a Photo by A. B. Nilson.

The View from the Children’s Garden Across the

Sea . . . . . . . Facing page 6 4

From a Painting by the Crown Princess of Sweden.

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Preface

SOFIERO — which means “Sophie’s Rest ” — is a Royal
residence crowning a hill on the south coast of
Sweden. Formerly it was the favourite home of
the late King Oscar and Oueen Sophie, who built the
house sixty years ago and gave it its name. When their
grandson, the present Crown Prince of Sweden, married
the British Princess Margaret, elder daughter of the
Duke of Connaught and only sister of the Princess
Patricia, Sofiero was among their wedding gifts ; and
ever since it has been the home most beloved of the
Crown Prince and Crown Princess and their children.

Here at Sofiero, when released for a short time from
the exacting duties of her position, the Crown Princess
spends a large portion of her days out-of-doors, working
with her own hands till she has made the grounds blossom
in all directions, even to the remotest nooks and crannies.

And the following pages describe her initial efforts and
experiments in transforming a neglected orchard, and an
overgrown, tangled hillside, into a veritable paradise of
flowers.

The Crown Princess desires me to emphasise the fact,
however, that this book was written in the first instance
solely with a view to interesting the Swedish nation in
gardening, since in Sweden garden-making is not the uni-
versal and popular hobby that it is in England. Her
Royal Highness is concerned, therefore, lest these chapters
should be too elementary for British readers, more
especially the one about rockeries, a form of gardening
particularly suited to (and at the same time somewhat
misunderstood in) Sweden.

But there is a freemasonry among flower-lovers that
takes little count of the word “ elementary.” Those of us

who find our recreation in a garden, and who work there
with our own hands, feel an interest in every other garden
that is made by a flower-enthusiast ; for in every garden
that has been tended with real affection there is certain
to be some new thing worth noting, and much to be
admired.

And the Sofiero Garden is no exception. It provides
not only a glorious wealth of beauty, but many new ideas
that will be of practical worth to the amateur.

In this book there is only space to deal with the main
features of the garden ; the thousand-and-one details must
follow later in a second volume. But to the British
garden-lover, it is an especial pleasure to note how the
Princess carried with her to the land of her adoption, the
keen joy in flowers that is such a characteristic of our own
country. And so earnestly has she worked to encourage
garden development in Sweden, that she has come to be
spoken of affectionately by the Swedish people as “Our
Flower Princess.”

Four of the Coloured Plates in this volume are from
sketches in oils by Her Royal Highness. The remainder
of the illustrations throughout the book — except where
otherwise indicated — are from photographs taken by the
Crown Prince and the Crown Princess of Sweden.

Flora Klickmann.

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Planning the Paths and
the Flower-Beds

NCE upon a time there was a castle.” So begins
many a fairy tale, and so will I begin this
description of Sofiero — the description which I
have undertaken after much hesitation and with some
diffidence. But so many have asked me to describe the
spot ; and, moreover, I am convinced that one is amply
repaid for the time and money one spends on gardening.
Let me at the outset ask my readers’ indulgence for my
many shortcomings as an authoress.

Yes, once upon a time there was a castle. It was
built in Scanialand, in the south of Sweden, and it had one
of the loveliest situations in the world. But when my
husband and I had it given to us, there was scarcely
anything in the way of flowers, and the whole place gave
one the impression of being the enchanted forest where
the fairy-tale princess still slept. She might, perhaps,
be enjoying her sweet slumber, and yet we wanted some-
thing else, something more than an enchanted forest. And
so we began forthwith to make our plans as to how we
might beautify that charmingly situated spot.

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On the North Side
of the Castle.

Standing on the steps
of the main entrance — on
the north facade of the
castle— one looks out over
a wide stretch of lawn with
a few isolated venerable
trees. Where the lawn

A bed of Lavender,
bordered by Marigolds,
at the foot of the castle
wall. The large pot
holds Geraniums.

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ends the park begins ; and
where the park ends two huge
gates of wrought iron open on
to the broad country road.

The lawn is calculated to
give a sense of restlulness,
because of its unity of colour
and its broad outline, and
hence it is without any kind
of llower -bed that might

Campanula pyramid- 1 • • • i i i i i n (

aiis against a back- counteract this impression, except a long' border by the wall ot
norlhwalL the house, where Campanula pyramidalis , sometimes called

the Chimney Bell-flower in England, low-growing marigolds,
and wayward nasturtiums, are edged by a row of tiles.

On the South Side
of the Castle.

On the south side of the castle there is a steep hill
which drops right down to the Sound. Ten years ago it
was overgrown with trees, and the first thing we did
was to fell some ot these — that is, we felled as many as
we possibly could. Some we were bound to keep for
the sake of the protection they afforded from the gales.

In Sweden we call it “hewing down the trees,” and I can
assure you that it is an art to know the right trees to fell.

The best method is to single out one tree at the time,
fell it, and then see what effect the space left by each
fallen tree has on the landscape as a whole. This slow Musk Mallow has sown

1 itself on the sloping

process has its reward, for one
seldom regrets the loss of any tree.

Indeed, with us, the improve-
ment made by the cutting was
great, since there was such a wealth
of forest trees.

Never hesitate to fell a diseased
tree, nor to hew down one in order
that its neighbour may get more
benefit from the soil and thus
develop better.

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and the Flower-Bsds

Starting to Plant the
Hillside with Flowers.

When the tree-felling-
was completed, grass was
sown on the hill, the edge
being finished off with a
low hedge of yew. This
hedge has grown splen-
didly, and looks like a low,
thick, green wall. Anyone
who has room for such a One of the terraces.

,, ill • t i* i* showing the low Yew

hedge should try it. When clipped twice a year, nothing Hedge,
can be prettier as a hedge than such a low, close, ever-
green wall.

We put various kinds of perennial flowers in little beds
here and there on the grassy slope — some in mixed groups,
some by themselves. Even in our first year we had many
kinds of flowers in bloom, such as the hardy scarlet fuchsia,
montbretia, lychnis (that spreads so well), foxgloves, lilies,
hypericum, the Oriental poppy with huge red blossoms,
and others.

The Matter
of Grouping.

By degrees, however, we came to the conclusion that
the flowers appeared to much greater advantage when not
mixed too much. We also found that it was best to have not
more than two colours in the same group, and that the tall
withelaS0YewMHeed'ge pure white lilies, white chrysanthemums of different kinds,

and some red flowers such as
fuchsia, montbretia, Oriental poppy,
and sweet bergamot, looked exceed-
ingly well together. One must
needs find one’s way by degrees in
matters of arrangement.

In the immediate vicinity of
the castle there had not been
anything at all in the way of
flowers, and we very soon found

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that this had to be rearranged. Personally, I think that
any building planted directly on sandy ground looks
unfinished, not to say downright ugly.

We now made a border, about half a yard in depth,
along the wall, and here we planted a number of perennial
flowers.

Very soon we found, however, that they looked a
confused muddle. The space was not large enough to
accommodate so many, and the effect was unsatisfactory.
The best way to arrange a bed of perennials is to have a
few well-chosen kinds, and plenty of each kind. Then the
effect is good, as the masses assert themselves. Also put
the plants close together ; that aids in producing a richness
of effect.

Our “ Hospital
for Flowers.”

Our next experiment was with monthly roses. But the
gales were too much for them towards the autumn, and in
the summer the sun was too strong. The poor wee roses kadingpafrhomantdhe park

, . . ttti to the Flower Garden.

were dying away! When
we found this out we moved
them to an especially-shel-
tered spot in the orchard
that I call “The Hospital
for Flowers.” Every plant
that seems sick or ailing is
always moved there, and —
marvellous to relate — they
soon show signs of recovery
in that sheltered, sunny spot.

Flowers that Withstood
the Sun and Gales.

After having had two
successive years of failure
with our flower-bed along the
wall of the house, we had a
lucky inspiration, and our
next project was a success.

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Against the wall a hedge
of lavender was planted,
and outside of that are
the always good-tempered
and grateful little mari-
golds. A low clipped
edging of box completes
the long straight bed. In
any odd angles of the
wall there are clumps of
the red spircea which has
such a troublesome long
botanical name. How-
ever, as it is highly decora-
tive, it is worth one’s
while to learn its name —

Spircea Bumaldi Antony Waterer. Thus, at last, we
found a design for this flower-bed which pleased us
very much, and which has stood the test of many
years in spite of our strong sun and our gales from
the narrow strip of sea where the Baltic and the North
Sea meet.

The wall itself we have tried to decorate, too, partly
in order to hide an ugly cement- line. An old Gloire de
Dijon stood there before our time, and that is now tlanked
by the self-clinging Virginia creeper ( Ampelopsis Vcitchii)
and the pale blue glycine.

The other sides of the house are well covered
with ivy.

A mass
lions, ‘

of White Carna-
* Mrs. Sinkins.”

We Planted Crimson Ramblers
on a Lower Terrace.

On a lower terrace, where it forms a large round sweep,
we planted crimson ramblers, training them over low
arches. Here is also an old-fashioned sundial encircled
by fan-shaped flower-beds of heliotrope and ageratum,
both of which are annuals. The blue flowers blend
charmingly, and contrast very prettily with the crimson
ramblers.

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Patches of
crocus in the

a u t u i
grass.

And the Slope was Carpeted
with more Roses.

On the slope between
the already-mentioned yew
hedge and this lower terrace
is a luxuriant carpet of roses
— the pink Dorothy Perkins
and the white Wichuriana ;
they climb up the little
slope and look so happy
and comfortable basking in
the sunlight and flowering abundantly.

These particular roses are especially suitable for
covering and clothing any bit of ground. In our garden
they climb along a grassy slope, but they appear to even
greater advantage when they are allowed to ramble as
they please over a bare bleak hill-top. The Wichurianas
are among the loveliest of roses, and they are to be had in
so many colours; and, in addition, their dark, shiny little
leaves are always very pretty.

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How we Transformed the
Kitchen Garden.

Having accomplished the remaking of our garden on
one side of the house, we set to work on the large rect-
angular orchard or kitchen garden — I really do not know
which to call it. For when I first saw it, it was full of old
fruit trees, beneath which the grass grew in rank tufts. A
few rows of gooseberry, raspberry, and currant bushes, and
a few vegetables completed the plantation. There was not
a proper path anywhere — just a meandering down-trodden [hhee^,£ged Paving by
track studded here and there
with huge boulders, over which
one had to find one’s way as
best one could. Yet it was
easy to see that the place was
eminently suitable for a regular
garden, with a kind of orchard-
like appearance.

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and the Flower-Beds

Our first work here was to make
two broad paths running at right
angles, forming a cross. Most of the
fruit trees were allowed to remain ;
only those that stood in the way of
the paths were felled. And on both
sides of the two paths we made long-
stretching flower-beds. A few newly-
planted fruit trees were removed (with
a generous lump of soil) to more
suitable spots in the garden. 1 he
grass-tufts were replaced by a regular
lawn beneath some of the old fruit
trees. Though it is not supposed to
be good for the fruit trees to have
grass next to the stem, we could not

The lovely blooms of ° . . . . -

the Frau Kiri Druschki resist having an uninterrupted lawn.

roses. <-> 1

The effect is so picturesque that we defended our design
on aesthetic grounds.

A Novel Form of
Background.

The large flower-beds on each side of the broad middle Dorothy Perkins and

0 ill Wichuriana Roses

path were about five yards deep. Here the fiowers should climbing over the

i ✓ I sloping Urass Bank.

live and have their being.

While they were being
arranged, it occurred to us
that Scania is a land of
strong gales, and that the
flowers that like gales are
few and far between.

What was to be done ?

A regular wall would look
clumsy ; a hedge would
absorb too much nourish-
ment from the soil. Then
we suddenly remembered
an espalier we had seen in
a garden in England that

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The Princess gathering
climbing White Dorothy
roses.

had looked very well.
Forthwith we had one
erected, with iron poles and
wire netting, as a back-
ground for our flower-beds.
It serves the purpose, and
is highly decorative covered
with honeysuckle (both the
early and the later varieties),
perennial hops, clematis of
various kinds, and the sweet little white jessamine (a
rarity in Sweden), and Periploca gi'ceca , with shining,
web-formed leaves. Where the espalier seemed thinly
covered we sowed nasturtiums, just for filling up any odd
corner. This is a most effective arrangement, and it all
combines very well indeed.

The beds are divided into plots about four yards long
and one yard broad. Each variety of plant gets a square
to itself.

Bright Flowers are Nearest
the Entrance.

We have no definite scheme, but, as a rule, we try to
have the gayest and most brilliant-coloured flowers nearest
the entrance, such as coreopsis, dianthus, and the herb lily
(. Alstrcemeria ), an exceptionally beautiful flower, which, in
genial soil, grows and spreads with extraordinary rapidity.
The old-fashioned sun- It was named by the great Swedish botanist Karl v. Limie
stand" 'aniiTsV' 'huiT after another well-known botanist, Ivlas Alstroemer. In

itrope'andiAgeratum. , , i

addition to these we nave
sunflowers, lychnis (in some
countries called the cross of
Jerusalem), red phlox (or
so-called Etna), phlox coque-
licot, eschscholtzia, I om
Thumb nasturtiums, calen-
dula, foxgloves in different
colours, the yellow tree lupin.

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A gay show of
Perennials in bloom

These photos show the Espalier Fence that is so useful for climbing plants.

A group of Campanula Celtidifolia, with
Nepeta Mussini in the foreground.

A clump of Polygonum in the valley, with Perennial Sunflowers in the foreground.

The Crown Princess of Sweden at work in Her Garden.

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Cooler Colours come
Farther Away.

Farther away come
the cooler colours. Here
is the grevish-blue Nepeta
mussini , which covers the

Ga^den,frshow?ngR°he ground with its little tlowers all through the summer, and

well in the centre of , . , T , • , t I r • 1 i

the Paved square. which 1 most heartily recommend. Here is also the
luxuriant happy-looking campanula (celtidifolia), the stately
veronica (subsessilis), the perennial cornflower, the white
gypsophila, also called the bridal veil ; here is Baptisia
australis with blue butterfly-like blossoms, the old-fashioned
white carnation Mrs. S inkins, blue and white violas,
love-in-a-mist and white valerian. There are many
others, though I must not weary you by enumerating
them all.

Behind the flower-beds the vegetables thrive splendidly
those important and very useful plants that no one can
do without.

Here and there some
bright blue flowers are
put, in order to em-
phasise the glow of this
flaming mass, such as
anchusa, veronica ( iongi -
folia), delphinium, and
sea holly ( Eryngium
amethy stimuli).

Breaking the Monotony of a
Long Straight Path.

A view of the Flower
Walk as seen from the
centre of the Rose
Pergola.

When the middle path
was being made we thought
that it looked too long and
monotonous. We therefore
made a pergola to break the
monotony, where a wealth of
roses climb and cluster, and
where two white-enamelled

\ PICTURESQUE BIT OF THE VALLEY OF SOFIERO.
From a Painting by the Crown Princess of Sweden.

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garden seats invite one to rest and enjoy to the full
the rose-scented air, while the bees are humming
everywhere.

In the very centre of the garden, just by the cross-
roads, i.e., where the two broad paths cross, is an octagonal
home-made well, built of sandstone found on our own
grounds down by the sea. Everybody who sees it takes it
for granted that the well must be very old, and must have
stood there for a century at least. For this particular
kind of stone contains a quantity of iron-ore and acquires
very soon a warm brownish colouring. But truth must be
told — our “antique well,” alas! was constructed in the
year 1 9 1 1 .

An open space round the
well is paved with the same
kind of stone, in the corners of
which there are little flower-
beds, These are somewhat
raised, and are edged with
low stone walls. This year
we had planted these little
beds with begonias — a dif-
ferent colour in every bed. In
former years we once had flax,
then we had petunias, and the
year after that geraniums—
in white and pink varieties. Nasturtiums in the

On each side of these flower corners we put large red
flower-pots with white marguerites that busy, generous
plant which never tires of putting forth fresh blooms.

In the crevices between the large flagstones of the
paved space are white thyme and dwarf campanula. But
the large tufts of radiant blue veronica longifolia, that are
cropping up everywhere in the crevices, have just planted
themselves. They are a gift of Nature ! And so are the
daisies, a salmon-pink Diantkus barbatus , delphinium, and
the many golden patches of stonecrop.

The entire “square ” is surrounded with large flower-

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beds with the espalier background after the manner of the
broad middle path ; and this scheme continues along the
arm of the “cross-road” which leads up to a typical cosy
little Swedish cottage with thatched roof. Here the
gardener lives.

The Gardener’s
Cottage.

A corner

Garden,

gardener’s

of the Herb
beside the
cottage.

The cottage, though recently erected, looks as old as
the well does, and it gives a charming finish to the long,
gay, multi-coloured Walk. The entire length of the Walk
from the well to the cottage is edged with roses. Roses,
roses all the way — roses of every kind, every size, and
every colour. Each variety has its own square ; but on a
narrow strip along the edges of the path there is, first,
Gruss au Teplitz, then — supposing one has had enough of
their red colour — one can refresh the eye with the snowy
splendour of Frau Karl Uruschki, until one can again
rejoice in the salmon-pink Johanna Sebus and the rich
foliage that particular kind of rose can boast of. Our

favourite roses are : Prince
de Bulgarie, with their pink
and yellow blooms : Rayon
d’Or — a charming pure
golden rose ; the luxuriant
Laurette Messini ; the
simple and graceful Kil-
larney ; and Souvenir du
President Carnot, an almost
white rose. Another very
generous rose is Conrad
Ferdinand Meyer, with de-
lightful flowers and of sturdy
growth. But here one is
more than ever reminded of
the saying that there is no
rose without thorns — it has
such a number of them.

Even the espalier is

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here covered with roses,
amongst which are Anne
of Geierstein, Lord Pen-
zance, Bar le Due. There
is never any need of pro-
tecting these against the
rough elements ; they
grow fast, the very foliage
has an agreeable scent —
in short, they all are highly
to be recommended. In
June they stand in their
glory, and their colouring
has hardly any equal, especially that of Bar le Due, Herb Garden^showing
which is of a ravishing sombre pink. Another beautiful edges it.
climber is Ruga, with peculiar salmon-pink blooms, Aglaia,
white Dorothy, Yeilchenblau with its almost mauve clusters
of roses. This last-mentioned rose is chiefly interesting on
account of its peculiar colour, and is to be recommended
only to those who have plenty of other kinds of roses.

Then there are the different kinds of ramblers : Turner’s
red ramblers, Dorothy Perkins, blush ramblers, and so on.

They are all very sweet.

My Own Special
Herb Garden.

Verbena Erinodes
the Herb Garden.

In the front of the cottage is my own little herb garden.
I just love it, and I have tried to get as many sweet-
scented herbs as I possibly could. To be sure, they are

neither rare nor particularly beautiful ;
on the contrary, they are mostly tiny
and insignificant. Still, they have a
charm peculiarly their own. One
narrow flagged path surrounds the
little garden, and another leads up to
the cottage. The herb garden is
divided into small squares, since the
flowers are tiny and modest-looking.
The path is edged off by means of low

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walls, on which are verbena, geraniums, and other old-
fashioned pot-plants in the ordinary kind of flower-pots.

I think I ought just to give the names of some of my
herbs in case anybody with a taste for herb gardening
would be interested to know. It must be remembered
that most of them have mauve or purple flowers, as if
they had purposely chosen this discreet, delicate colouring.
And one’s fancy runs to thoughts of the time of the nuns
in their cloister gardens, and of how honoured these now-
humble flowers were in former days. There is thyme, that
has to be trampled on in order to bring out its sweet scent;
hyssop, with its spicy smell ; rosemary — “ That’s for re-
memberance,” as Ophelia says (remember never to pass
it without taking a sprig ! ) ; Myrrhis odorcita , sometimes
known as “Sweet Cicely,” which is somewhat larger and has
a fern-like leaf; Rue, with a very strong scent; lavender,
the loveliest of herbs, and such a decorative plant, too, with
its sturdy growth and its thousands of bluey-mauve flowers
— it is the favourite of all butterflies; angelica — rather a
stately plant with white flowers ; marjoram (in olden days
— so the legend says — the women derived great comfort
from seeing marjoram growing on the graves of their dear
ones, for that meant that the departed were now happy) ;
sage, with its grey woolly leaves and strong aromatic scent.

Against the wall of the cottage there are tall holly-
we'eTi'n 'bioom by^he hocks. This is typically Swedish ; all the cottages have

steps leading up to the ' i i i i

Hiower walk. them. Here and

there amongst the
herbs stands a tall
rose bush just to
give the place some
colour.

{Photo by Alfred B. Nilson.

The Flower Walk, with the Gardener’s Cottage in the distance.

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The Yellow Border — A Veritable Sea of Gold.

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The Colours in the
Flower-Beds

WE will now retrace our steps to the well I told you
we had made in the centre of the garden, and just
see if there is anything we forgot to notice as we
went down the Flower Walk.

Looking out on our right we can discern the blue hazy
line of the Danish coast. That is an enchanting back-
ground to the “ vista ” (as the Italians say), the long
garden borders being edged with nasturtium. Could one
imagine anything more beautiful when the nasturtium
stands in its glory ? Old cherry trees bend their boughs
towards the ground, and give light and shade to the picture.

A meadow, where games are played, forms part of the
scene. The meadow has never been tended in any way
for the last eight years, except that it is frequently cut and
rolled, and yet it looks splendid. We had sheep on it
before we turned it into a playing-field.

Roses, White Lilies,
and Lavender.

Turning to the left again,
ten altogether — smothered
with numberless roses —
Dorothy Perkins. Between
the arches are espalier fruit
trees from which we hope to
get plenty of apples and
pears some day.

The edges of the broad
path are bordered with pink

we look on arch after arch —

The View from the South
Side of the Castle,
showing the Sound.

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polyanthus roses,

“Mrs. Cutbush”;
behind them there is
a thick hedge of
lavender, and behind
these there are
Madonna lilies.

Many people
think this part of
the cross-road is the
prettiest of all — that
it is our chef cT 'oeuvre
in gardening. Per-
ines by the Rose naps they are right. I here is something so well-bred
and aristocratic about those lilies on their straight, slender
stems, looking down on the blue lavender blossoms, and
forming a kind of frame for the pink clusters of roses. We
pick the lavender blossoms towards the end of July and put
them in between the household linen ; thus we enjoy them
the whole year round.

The Pink
Flower-Bed.

Now we have been over a good deal of the garden at
Sofiero ; but if my readers have the patience to go on,
there is still more to see. In another corner of the garden
we have a one-colour scheme in the flower-beds. In one
bed, for instance, all the flowers are pink. There are so
many pink blossoms, and they are often difficult to fit in
with other colours. Here are Sedum fabaria , Rosa horten-
sior , pink spirtea, pink phlox, pink campions (both the ^eardasht^e0s0'uhncdWe!l
annual and the perennial
variety), Physostegia vir-
giniana (sometimes called
False Dragon Head), which
is tall, and has the entire
stalk covered witn flowers.

The bed is edged with a
border of pink daisies.

A PART OF A FLOWER BORDER IN SEPTEMBER.
From a Painting by the Crown Princess of Sweden.

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The Blue
Flower-Bed.

Next we come to the
blue flower-bed with a
bright splash of veronica
( spicata ); with some blue
asters ( bessarabicus ) ; schiz-
anthus ; campanula {car-
patica) ; delphinium {cash-
mirianum ), a less-known
plant, but pretty and easy
to cultivate; cornflowers ;
annual lupins, and so on.

Cold and
Grey.

Then comes the crown
and glory of them all : the yellow flower-bed — a veritable in the Park,
sea of gold. There are so many yellow flowers to be had
that a yellow flower-bed is very easy to design. In order
to emphasise this patch of shining gold, we put the grey
flower-bed next to it. “Grey!” I can hear my reader
exclaim somewhat dubiously.

But wait ! I can assure you that the grey flower-bed has
distinct attractions and even charm. On a hot summer’s-day
it has a cooling effect.

This flower-bed is my own work, and I have gathered
together : Ncpeta mussini , the daintiest among little plants,
with grey foliage and purple flowers ; Ncpeta mac rant ha,
a corner of the Yeiiow a taller plant of a similar kind, which never tires of

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blossoming from June to
September ; Cerastium
tomentosum , “Snow in
Summer ” as it is called in
England, so overstrewn
is it with white flowers
that the name is truly
appropriate ; Stachys lan-
ata, often known as

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“lamb’s ear,’’ with woolly leaves as soft as velvet; the
plume poppy (. Bocconia cordala), a tall plant which is quite
easy to cultivate though its homeland is Japan — it blooms
in July ; Yucca jilamentosa , with white, waxen, bell-shaped
flowers and lance- shaped leaves pointing upwards ; the
thistle-like sea-holly ( Eryngium alpinum ) ; Salvia sclarea ,
a peculiar plant with decorative leaves, and milk-white
clusters of blossoms (it was formerly called Oculus C/iristi) ;
Hyacinthus candicans , lily-white in colour ; lavender cotton,
with its graceful, pale-grey foliage ; and many others in
addition to these I have mentioned. All of these have
either bluish-grey flowers or grey foliage, and the general
effect is beautiful as well as rare.

The Grey Flower Border.

Border with Nasturtiums, Daisies, Eschcholtzia, Anchusa, and other Plants.

One of the Ponds in the Valley.

Photo by Alfred B. Nil son .

a grassy path through the valley. This path
meanders by the side of a rippling little brook, and
presently we arrive in the park. Here are the dowers that
like moisture, such as the sweet bergamot, with its rich
crimson blossoms and aromatic leaves, ranunculus, forget-
me-nots, giant cow parsley, knot-weed ( Polygonum amplexi-
caule ), loose-strife, willow herb, winter heliotrope, and the
gigantic prickly rhubarb ( Gunnera spinosa), the leaves of
which measure more than
one and a half yards in
diameter — such an ideal
fairy-tale setting they would
make for any Puck or Tom
Thumb.

On the slopes of the
valley, where the shadows
are not too heavy, we have
planted masses of rhodo-
dendron and azalea. In
this park-soil even the Frau
Karl Druschki thrives (that
is, by the way, a rose that
is very hardy), and amongst
them we have put Rosa
Hermosa and blue del-
phinium in every conceivable
shade.

A Shady Path
through the Park.

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Leaving the
actual garden
at Sofiero, the
path meanders
by the side of
a rippling
brook, and
presently we
arrive in the
park.

Photo by

Alfred B. Nils on.

Stachys Lanata, sometimes known as “ Lamb’s Ear.”

The Waterside
Flowers

Here are the
flowers that
like moisture —
sweet berga-
mot, ranuncu-
lus, forget-me-
nots, cow pars-
lev, and the
gigantic prickly
rhubarb, with
leaves more
than a yard
and a half in
diameter.

Photo Iv

Alfred B. Nil son.

The Castle glimpsed through the trees.

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Beside the
Pond.

Where the valley
ends is what we call our
“tea terrace”; it is by
the side of a lame

that we had made some
years ago ; and there are
now both gold fish and
trout in that pond.

Amongst the flowers
by the pond there are notably : iris kcempferi , the Japanese
iris, which is the iris par preference , but which requires
some amount of patience, for it seldom blooms until its
second year ; but one is so much the happier when its
flowers at length appear. In addition, there are bright
rose-coloured spiraea, bamboo, day lilies, Solomon’s seal,
giant seakale with tall stems bearing hundreds of little
white blossoms, and foxgloves with yellow flowers, a
perennial variety of this well-known plant which otherwise
is usually bi-annual. In addition to these we hunted up
some wild plants, such as the cuckoo pint, heather, the
wild foxglove, willow herb, and so on, and put them
amongst the garden flowers.

This “tea terrace” down in the valley is so very
sheltered that the bamboo plants and the pampas grass
have suffered neither from gales nor frosts, but have stood
here for years without losing any of their glory.

The lawn is studied with magnolia trees in pure snowy
glory, and very sweet, though somewhat capricious blossoms.
The flame flower ( Tropceolum speciosum) climbs gaily over
the boulders, and gladdens us with its fiery show of
blossoms. Its roots resemble those of the sugar plant, and
should preferably be planted fairly deep down between two
large stones, so that the roots are kept cool while the
flowers are permitted to bask in the sunlight. It is a
perennial, but it very often makes a scanty appearance the
first year, in order to shine so much the more the next.

AZALEAS AND RHODODENDRONS.

POLYANTHA ROSES, LAVENDER AND LILIES

NEPETA MUSSINI. ESCHSCHOLTZIA AND CAMPANULA
CELTIDIFOLIA.

IN THE ROSE GARDEN.

The Waterside
Flowers

Where the
valley ends in
the park at So-
fiero is what we
call our “Tea
Terrace *' ; it is
by the side of
a large pond
that we had
made some
years ago.

Photo by
A If red B. N ilson

Hollyhocks outside the Gardener’s Cottage: These
are characteristic of Sweden.

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It thrives best in cooler
climates. For instance, it
does well in Scotland, where
it is seen about the little
cottages — very often even
growing on the roof ; while
in England one does not so
often see it doing full justice
to its powers of strength and
beauty.

Phlox in the Park. — , ,

The Lily

Corner.

Beside the “tea terrace ” with its white-painted benches
and tables, we have what we call our lily corner. The soil
was especially and carefully prepared. Here is every
conceivable kind of lily, most of which show their gratitude
by flowering profusely, and permeating the air with scent.
Amongst the loveliest are Lilium lancifolium , Lilium
canadense , the purple Martagan lily, the bright-yellow tiger
lily, the orange-coloured Lilium umbelatum , and the familiar
Lilium bulbiferum.

All these lilies are planted round a huge upright

boulder, which the late King Oscar of Sweden had placed
there many years ago, and which bears the following

inscription : “ From this spot one can see the Castle of

Ivronborg.” This inscription was chiselled in the year the
Castle of Sofiero was built, namely, 1865. But it is

impossible to see a glimpse of Kronborg Castle nowadays,
even though we have felled a number of trees.

The Rose Pergola with the Well in the distance.

The Blue Border with Phlox and Campanula.

SOME rustic steps, followed by a path, take us down to
the sea. These steps are made out of the natural
boulders, and on each side of them is a rockery.

Once one comes under the spell of rock gardening, one
finds it the most fascinating work of all. At the same time
it is the most difficult of all gardening to describe. Never-
theless, I will try my pen at it, since Nature, especially i;

Sweden, provides so many spots suitable for rock-gardens.

The term rock-gardening sounds somewhat formidable,
especially for those who have seen so-called rock-gardens
where the stones are huddled together at random without
any sort of raison d'etre , and where a few puny plants are
striving for existence. Yet, I can assure you that a
carefully-planned and well-executed rock-garden is truly
delightful.

Every little plant must have its own abode between the
stones, the grey tone of which emphasises the colour of the RockPGardenath in the
blossoms and leaves.

Thus even a few plants
can be very effective in-
deed. It is important
that the soil be dug up
thoroughly before the
stones are put in place,
and that the soil be
examined in order to mix
with it more fertilising
matter should it be needed.

If the rockery be
arranged on sloping
ground the stones should

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“bind ” and secure the soil as much as possible, in case
of heavy showers. Another mission of the larger
boulders is that of providing shade for such plants as must
be protected against glaring sunshine.

Remember that every crevice can and must have some
sort of vegetation growing in it ; this will guide one in the
arrangement of the stones, and guard one against putting
down too many. If any stone seems superfluous, take it
away — one can easily do this oneself ; and if the space

seems too big, never mind,
that will make an effective
hollow in which a number
of plants can be put. Only
if such a hollow is too
sloping, so that heavy rains
may wash away all soil
from the roots, should the
stones be replaced by more
suitable ones, not otherwise.

We Began with
Failure.

Our modest beginning
with a rock-garden was, at
first, a failure. We were
too eager to succeed, laid
down too many stones, our
hollows sloped too much,
and too many branches
from neighbouring trees
fown,.erbgroywinBgellSronck shaded the little plants. Now we have learnt our lesson ;

and, as we add from year to year to our growing rockery,
we are careful not to repeat former errors. The hollows
should be as varying in shape as possible — big and small
ones, oblong, round, narrow, square, one deep down
nestling beside a big piece of rock, the other high up near
the peak of a boulder, so that the plant can climb out over
the stony surface.

The rockery in its entirety must present rhythm and

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The Rock Garden by the water: Photo ly Alfred B. Nihon.

The House is above behind the trees.

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variety in the same manner
as a picture, no matter it
it be arranged along a
slope or on level ground,
continuously or in terrace-
formed groups. We have
experimented with every
kind of rock-gardening.

Each time we reclaim an
additional bit of the hill-
side we try some fresh
device in the rockery line.

The Rockery should Harmonise
with its Surroundings.

Every rock - garden
rocky boulders. should harmonise with the existing characteristics of Nature

— not aim at dominating or obliterating these in any way.

Naturally the taller plants should serve as background for
the shorter ones, while those on which one intends to bestow
special care should be placed nearest the path. One should
arrange some paths and steps for the purpose of getting at
the other plants. This is always necessary, but especially
in the spring, when the frailest and tenderest amongst
them often run the risk of being suffocated by weeds if one
does not keep a watchful eye and tending hand over them.

The Preference of Each
can be Gratified.

A rock-garden has this in common with a museum, that White Autumn Daisies,
one can go there every day and yet
always discover something new
revealing itself to one’s interested
eyes. Everything can find a home
here — those who love the sun and
those who prefer the shade (the
latter should be put at the back of
large stones). Those who like to
have their roots kept moist should
be placed at the lowest possible

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Evergreen Candytuft.

level, and the creeping
plants ought to be placed
level with the surface of
a stone so that they can
ramble at their leisure ;
those who do not require
any particular depth of
soil can be put in any and
every crevice. Every-
thing can be suitably
accommodated.

For instance, white
arabis, called “Snow on
the Mountains ’’ in some
parts of England, the

pretty little white plant that thrives so well and flowers so
early in the spring, can be put high up amongst the stones
over which it will presently ramble in every direction and
show to the best possible advantage.

And the same applies to aubretia, which — if it only may
bask in the sun — will completely clothe the stone blocks in
a single summer ; creeping Jenny, that golden-blossomed
plant which, once planted, spreads so rapidly that one
must prune it severely, or it will take the upper hand at the
expense of its neighbours, and almost invade their territory ;
Crucianella sty/osa, with pink blossoms behaves in a similar
manner, but is taller, and should be given a larger area to
occupy — a thing it will soon accomplish.

Saxifragasof every kind are suit-
able for rockeries, and so are all
species of houseleeks and of silene —
everybody knows that, I am sure.
But that is not an adequate selection ;
there are many, many others, all
suitable.

A view of the Rock-
Garden taken from the
front steps.

Some Favourites
of Mine.

I will iust mention a few that are

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White Gypsophila in
the Rock-Garden.

particular favourites of mine : Gypsophila repens , with pink
and white blossom ; speedwell, which spreads over the
ground ; Gentiana acaulis , that wonderful, pretty little blue
alpine flower ; all kinds of Hypericum (the Rose of Sharon
and St. John’s Wort family), of which there are many
different varieties, tall and short, some creeping along the
ground, covering it completely with little yellow blossoms as
soon as ever the sun shines a little — as, for instance, Hyperi-
cum polyphyllum , and the creeping Hypericum rep tans.

Other particular favourites of mine are Incarviltea
delavayi, with rose-red bugle-shaped blooms and big leaves
(it looks particularly well in a rock-garden) ; many and
various kinds of campanula, with their demure little blue-
and-white bells ; the common spircea, often seen indoors in
Sweden, can easily be transplanted to a shady spot once it
has attained some strength and maturity. It should,
however, always have sufficiently moist soil. Then one
can rejoice, every spring, in the tiny red shoots amongst
the stones, for spiraea is so hardy that, even in a northern
clime, it can stand the wintry cold without needing to be
covered over.

Azaleas and rhododendrons should not be forgotten.
Their proper place is on the crest of the rockery. No
shrubs are so radiantly beautiful when in bloom as these
two last mentioned. And the azaleas are an orna-
ment also in the autumn,
when the leaves are
almost as pretty as the
flowers were in the sum-
mery June. As regards
rhododendrons, their
leaves look well all the
year round.

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Perennials should
Predominate.

One would prefer to
employ perennials chiefly
in one’s rockeries ; but

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Steps leading in and about the Rock Garden.

Two Views in the Rock Garden.

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the annuals ought not to be excluded. It would be a
pity not to have a splash of portulacas, for instance,
in the rockery. Once having seen them in their multi-
coloured glory, one is determined that — come what
may— one must have them in one’s garden. They open
only in the sun — but that is precisely their charm. Day
alter day, as you go about the garden, you will imagine
that you have discovered hitherto unknown shades of
colouring in red, yellow, and orange ! There is something

so fairy-tale like about the
portulaca.

Foxgloves look well
among the stones ; so do
petunias, low nasturtiums
and ageratum. Bartonia
aurea, with yellow blos-
soms and of low growth,
must be hanodngr over a
grey boulder in order to
appear at its best.

Among the sedums, or
stonecrops, there is a tiny
annual, Sedum ccemleum,
with pale-blue blossoms ;
it thrives best if planted
between two boulders so
that it falls over them
like a blue cascade.

Petunias and Rhodo-
dendrons growing The M0degt and Retiring little
among the stones. . °

Flowers must be included.

The more modest flowers should on no account be
omitted, neither the annuals nor the perennials, such as the
daisy, the pansy, the Iceland poppy which spreads so
generously, the different kinds of primroses, forget-me-not,
different kinds of phlox — both the low- stemmed spring
phlox and the stately autumn varieties, Linarici cymbalaria ,
that is so often found on the walls of old castles and other
buildings both in Sweden and in England, where it is called

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“ mother of millions ” —
a name it well deserves on
account of the profusion of
its little flowers and the
rapidity with which it
spreads.

Further, we must re-
member Alyssum scixatile ,
a flower that should be
given a place by the side
of arabis or aubretia some-
where by a big boulder,
over which it can cascade
its clusters of golden
flowers.

The various Diant hus should also be included, especially
Diant hits neglect us and Diant hus plumarais. Ferns are
very suitable for shaded corners along with fuchsias, fox-
gloves, thalictrum (or meadow rue) and the attractive little
Anomatheca crusnta, with its orchid-looking blossoms.

It is a curious fact, and one worth mentioning, that
such delicate plants as the greyish blue Ceanothus G/oire de
Versailles , the dark blue Buddleia veitchiana and Opuntia
(a kind of cactus), have stood the winter with us year after
year, without being hurt by the frost.

I could easily give you many more names, give many
more descriptions of flower-beds and give more advice ;
but I believe my hints are sufficient for anybody who would
like to work as I have worked. I ought to mention that
Buddieia Veitchiana in we have very few of the early spring flowers in our garden,

since we always aim at having
a profusion of blossoms during
June, July, and August.

My Children’s
Garden.

Not far from the rockery,
and at the very crest of the
hill, is the garden, playground,

White Stonecrop and
Saxifraga Umbrosa in
the foreground, with
Daisies behind.

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and little cottage belonging
to our children. They
attend to the ground, dig,
plant, water, and weed it
themselves.

And not only that, they
even made a rockery of
their own, having found out
what a source of pleasure a
rockery is. That is, of
course, a miniature one, with plants
rockery, partly wild flowers that have <
of their own accord, and wild flowers
found in the woods and alonsf hedsfe-rows.

partly from our
jrown there just
that they have
As I mentioned

of the

cottage

is their kitchen garden, with potatoes,

A pale blue Clematis:
lanuginosa.

carrots, radishes and strawberries. But I am telling you
more about this in another chapter.

And now we have walked through the entire garden at
Sofiero. If any of my readers have been helped or inspired
by this one walk, and more especially if, in ever such a

modest way, my description
has been any aid to a be-
ginner in gardening, I shall
not have written in vain.

A Lilium Auratum
among Rhododendrons.

in another article, wherever they find a pretty wild flower,
they immediately transplant it to the rockery, where every-
thing seems to thrive and flourish. The garden, with
a neat little fence, forms a typical setting to a country
cottage, and outside the fence is the rockery very appro-
priately arranged on the slope of the hill.

The flowers in their little garden are all easy to culti-
vate, and all yield a number of blossoms : tall annual
sunflowers, marigolds, cornflowers, poppies, zinnias, asters,
and geraniums, and, of course, nasturtium?. At the back

One Word
of Advice.

Never despair about any-
thing in your garden though

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Down in the Valley.

A clump of Cerastium Biebersteini, sometimes called “Snow in Summer.”

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it does look hopeless at times. Half the fascination about
gardening is just the difficulty of making a success of one’s
ideas. One has a number of obstacles to battle against ;
but the joy is so much the greater when one finally does
realise one’s desires. The very fact that a garden never is
quite finished, that there is always more, and yet more, to
be done, to be beautified, that one idea leads to another in
endless succession — that is the entrancing thing about the
garden.

“A thing of beauty is a joy for ever,-’ Keats said, and
that is indeed appropriate to gardening.

The Path leading from the Rock Garden toward the open Sea.

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have had opportunities of both planning and re-
planning several gardens in and near Stockholm,
and in order to help amateur-gardeners I will give
a brief description of the three main types of garden
schemes I have employed.

On an island in the inner group of the Stockholm
Archipelago (all-in-all there are 200 islands) there is a
yellow-washed cottage on a rocky slope close by the shore.
It is surrounded by tall trees.

One could not think of having a conventional garden
here, where one had to roll the boulders aside and
dig up old roots in order to plant anything at all. Only
those roots, tree-stumps, and stones that proved actually
decorative were permitted to remain. 1 he largest and
the6 Garden ^Mixed most un wieldly naturally had to be left, and formed the

boundary tor the
garden.

Wherever a
boulder was rolled
away, the hollow
was filled with rich
soil. Thus excel-
lent places for the
new plants were
soon ready.

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The Rockery in the
small garden in Spring,
before any planting out
was done.

Spring Flowers were the
Speciality of the Yellow-
Washed Cottage.

The owner of this little
garden has specialised in
spring flowers, and it is about
these that 1 should like to
write. But in order to
describe the spring flowers
I must go back to the
autumn when hundreds and
hundreds of bulbs were planted in this prepared soil.
Snowdrops, crocus, muscari (or grape hyacinth), scilla,
tulips, and so on, were put in during September and
October; they were planted as close together as possible,
and two to three inches deep— for the secret of the rich
effect is simply the close planting together of the bulbs.

When the spring approaches, the snowdrops are the
very first to peep out from their sheltered and sunny corner
by the cottage wall. There they stand in a long array in
the front of winter aconite, which has little yellow blossoms
somewhat like the anemone, and is particularly welcome on
account of the colour it gives to the otherwise pale colour-
scheme of early spring.

Next the crocus appears, first the yellow ones — they
are rather small, as a rule — then the mauve and blue
varieties, amongst which, I particularly recommend “ King
of the Blues ” and Purpurea grand/ flora.

Now comes the turn for a number of other spring bulbs
planted promiscuously — some earlier, others later — so that
in the same beds there shall always be some blossoms.

Nestling against a giant
boulder is a group of the
sweet little scilla ; and close
besides them is a cluster of
yellow crocus against a
background of narcissus.
In the hollow of an old tree-
stump, right up on the hill,

The same Rockery in
June with Daisies and
Pansies in the fore-
ground.

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there are grape hyacinths
crowded together ; and not
far from that the red “ Car-
dinal ” tulips are parading on
a broad strip of ground.

A Symphony in White
and Gold Beneath a
Crab- Apple Tree.

Beneath a crab-apple
tree, on comparatively level
ground, there is an almost dazzling stretch of thousands of irnhfafenslTmmeerJ.apon'ca
tulips. Here the bulbs actually touch each other, and the
effect is very fine. A broad band ot Couronne d or with
double blossoms of deep gold are framing a bed of the tall,
single, snow-white La Reine. Rose-mauve spots of La
Precieuse liven up the white-and-goid symphony.

In addition to those already named, there are flowers
everywhere — amongst stones, as a carpet for the under-
growth of the woodland, and on the grassy slopes of the
hill ; groups of tulips, narcissus, daffodils, jonquils, blue
chionodoxa, yellow and red primroses — yes, groups as a
rule ; but where there are no groups the grass is studded
with them.

A Garden of
Mixed Flowers.

A garden of a different type was planned on ground
where hot-houses and frames had had their place. Hence
it had eminent advantages for successful gardening. The
space was but small. We made a path down the middle,
along the sides of which we arranged long beds of roses.

These edge off the lawns,
and they, in their turn, are
edged off by long rows of
pansies— spring pansies and
autumn pansies in every
imaginable colour. In the
middle we widened the path
into something approaching

A Giant Balsam in
bloom in September.

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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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only remained for us to place the stones so that they looked
as if they had been there for years.

Thanks to the existing wealth of stones, our rockery
was a success (cobbles and boulders are the best, as a rule,
for rockeries). Hollows were dug in the ground for the
biggest ones, so that they should appear natural ; a narrow
path paved with cobbles meanders in between the plants,
so as to be almost invisible, right up to the summit of the
plantation where rhododendrons and azalea stand on the
boundary of the estate, Foxgloves raise their erect stems
by the side of the rhododendrons, and begin to blossom
when the glory of the rhododendrons is departing.

Elsewhere in the rockery is a group of aubretia and
arabis alpina , and they are the attractive features of the
rockery in the spring, There is also found Phlox verna, a
sweet, low-stemmed purple variety ; Sedum cyaneum, with
blue blossoms ; Secliim album (white) ; and Sedum pur-
pureum ; saponaria ; corydalis, an early yellow dower ; the
low-stemmed Campanula muralis , with a wealth of dowers ;

Diantlms neglectus ; Thymus alpinus , etc.

All the primroses and polyanthus are grouped in one
spot — yellow, red, purple-blue, and others. In another
corner are the different kinds of anemone — the blue wood-
anemone (so often seen in Swedish forests), the yellow
variety from the north of Sweden, and Anemojie sylveslris,
or snowdrop anemone. It is a pretty idea, and a good
lesson in botany, to collect different varieties of the same
species of dower. One sees their resemblance and their a sundial in the middle

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divergencies.

In a scheme
like this one I have
described, colour is
never lacking all
through the spring.

An Edging for
the Border.

A long, narrow-
border nearest the

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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 wTant 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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In the Third Garden : A Corner with Steps and a Gate.

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A background of Fox-
gloves.

of daffodils ; later on there are calendula. Their
glowing yellow against the grey granite is one of
the most glorious sights imaginable. The long,
narrow flower-beds are divided into squares, each
square being devoted to one kind of flower. In
the centre, under an old plum tree, there is a
seat from which one can enjoy the sight of the
flowers— the border of portulaca ; the deep blue
Anchusa Italica Dropmore ; the salmon-pink
Dianthus barbatus ; the low-stemmed Campanula
carpatica ; the red lychnis ; heuchera, with flaming-red
blossoms ; the tall perenial autumn asters ; the brilliant
golden rudbeckia ; here also one can enjoy the white rocket,
and the huge marguerites ; and not the least amongst one’s
pleasures is that derived from the sight of the Canterbury
bells in different shades of blue and pink.

A Garden on a
Rocky Island.

Last spring we began to alter the steep hillside into a
rockery of a different character from the ones just described.
Since the one solid rock constituted all we wanted in the
way of stone, and since the rocks of the Archipelago
islands are both terraced and broken by crevices in which
one can put plants, our work consisted in improving the
soil, enlarging the existing natural “flower-beds,” and
adding to the grass and wild ilowers which already existed ;
also we had to bank up the earth, and thus secure the soil
against rains that would wash it away ; this we did by
means of cement. Such cement-edges must be as narrow
and invisible as one can manage it ; but they are not
difficult to make, and I know this from my own personal
experiments.

We planted aubretia, Alyssum saxalile with its bright
yellow blossoms, Arabis alpina and Dianthus plumarius (a
very pretty little variety of Dianthus ), foxgloves, “ mother
of millions,” primroses, different kinds of stonecrops, white,
yellow and blue, anemone, pansies, periwinkle, Crucianella
stylosa , nasturtiums, different kinds of phlox, such as nivalis ,

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and subulata , both of which are very pretty, Tclekia specioso
(a tall, yellow-blossomed plant which is highly decorative),
etc. The result is very good indeed.

On one side of this rock — now a rockery — stands a
gnarled old oak on a hilly bank. Out of this bank we are
now making another rockery. The owner of the estate
has herself constructed the stone steps — adorned with a
number of plants — which lead to the seat under the oak on
the summit of the hill. On either side of the steps there
have been annuals of different kinds ; they are now going
to be replaced by bulbs, with a view to next spring.

Thus the wilderness is transformed into one of the most
idyllic spots imaginable. Love of flowers and two years’
work have accomplished this.

Such success means earnest endeavour, joy in one’s
work, and pride in what one has accomplished. I can
only hope that as many as possible may experience, as I
have, the keen pleasure that gardening affords the actual
gardener.

Children and Their Flowers 4^

IN this chapter I will endeavour to tell how our children
came to be interested in flowers, and how, in connection
with their gardening, we have had special opportunities
to teach them many useful and interesting things.

And what an important item would be added to juvenile
education if flower culture, no matter on how limited a scale,
formed a special subject, and the love of Nature were by
this means awakened in the mind of the child.

Children and flowers ! Does it not seem that they are
inseparably connected ? Both are such great sources of
joy. Both stand to us as symbols of innocence and hope.

Flowers Grow for Those
Who Love Them.

Children and flowers have equally great need of sun-
shine and love. The cheeks of our little ones grow pale
during the sunless days of the long dark winter in Sweden,
or if they are deprived for a little of fresh air ; and flowers

cannot exist at all without
sun. Sun is their life-elixir;
without it they wither away.
It is clear that children
must have loving care ; and
there are many who hold
that flowers thrive best when
tended by loving hands.
Personally, I, too, believe
this theory, judging by my
own experience in gardening.

Many a time have I
found strong and beautiful

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plants in tiny low-roofed little cottages, flowers prettier by
lar than in many a large garden, though the window panes
were so small that sunshine could not be admitted sufficient
for them all, and they certainly had not been reared scienti-
fically. But sturdy flowers are to be found in little cottages
only where the owners are really fond of flowers. The care
of loving hands makes up for what may be lacking in
skilful gardening. Were it not for the love they get, the
flowers would never live at all in these little cottages ; for
watering, tending, tying up of stems, and so on, take

considerable time.

I myself once
heard a old woman
say —

“ Go and talk
a little to the
plants. Then they
are sure to grow.”
It may be that
children do not
always understand
flowers. Not, at
any rate, in the
same way that we
grown - up people
do. Yet, as time
goes on, they learn

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and her children plant- by degrees to appreciate them more and more.

ing out Rockery Plants. tin

1 o be sure, most children like to look at flowers, to
have them about, and especially to make quaint little
nosegays of brilliant, glaringly-contrasting flowers — red and
yellow are mostly their favourites — but the tending of their
plants is sometimes too much of a task. And one must
not expect too much of children.

A Child’s Garden has Great
Educational Value.

Nevertheless every bit of ground that children can
call their own, or have a share in, is, in my opinion, of

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Their Flowers

great educational value. First and
foremost because they learn to
love the bit of their native land
where they have been pottering
about. They learn to love the
fields where, from their infancy,
they have watched father and
mother work, in order to reclaim
and beautify ground, where they
have been digging and planting
all together. Then, also, they learn
the wonderful growth of plants, and
their very manner ol adapting themselves to iresh soil. playhouse.

And thus they learn to love flowers instead of carelessly
trampling them under foot, or picking them only to throw
them away the next moment.

Moreover, they become quite deft and handy in trans-
planting, weeding, and many other things. As for watering
their gardens, there is never any need to remind them of that.

It is too delicious to splash about and get just a bit soiled and
muddy — there is no joy like that of watering in the garden.

I have tried to teach our children to love flowers as
much as I do. Hence they have each their own little plot at
Sofiero, as I have already mentioned elsewhere. When the
eldest boy was seven, we gave the children a tiny cottage for
their own tools and their toys, etc. And round the cottage a
one of the Princes plot was dug out for them and partially prepared. A paling

among the White Wil- r ? l it-1 . 1 °

B°auameby th^Bro^k"' was Put UP 111 orc*er to keep the rabbits away. Incidentally,

the rabbits in Sofiero
seem to prefer the
choicest of plants
and the most cher-
ished of one’s flowers.

What our Children
Chose for their
Gardens.

Then the
was divided into

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Is there any Small Boy
be he Prince or Pea-
sant— who does not feel
important when he is
allowed to handle the
Garden H ose !

three parts — one for vege-
tables and two for dowers.
And now the children were
allowed to receive weekly
exactly what seeds or plants
they desired. Radishes were,
of course, their first thought,
for children will not wait long
for the fruits of their labours,
and radishes grow quickly.
Then they wanted carrots ;
that was considered absolutely
necessary so that they might
give something of their garden
produce to their horses. More-
over, carrots were fairly easy
to cook on their own little
stove in the cottage that is
to say, if they were not con-
sumed as soon as they were picked, for “ that is the
simplest way,” say the children.

Their next demand was for potatoes, which were on no
account to be forgotten. Such an exhilarating moment it
was, too, when they were dug up ; and though the children
forgot to bank up the potatoes last year, they yielded
splendidly. When the potatoes were dug, they were

cooked and eaten the same

-eaten almost with

reverence. And a unanimous vote was passed that just
such teeny weeny potatoes were the very best that ever
were !

In one corner of the garden they planted strawberries.
The strawberry bed was becomingly edged with bright
green parsley. The children considered apples highly
desirable ; but space was limited in their little plot. Besides,
they stipulated for a tree that would bear apples the very
first year — plenty of apples. When I explained that this
was impossible, that many years would go before a newly-
planted apple tree bore fruit, the children gave it up.

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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

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soil and everything else is expressly prepared for them.
Here is indeed a proof that flowers thrive when their
owners love them. For my little girl is so fond of
roses that she admires every opening bud. More than
that she has not done for them, I confess ; but for
some unexplainable reason her roses are always the
finest, and she is always coming to one or another
of us with very choice specimens of roses from her own
bushes.

One year my little girl had got the idea that she wanted
everlasting tlowers in her garden, so that she could take
something from her garden that she could keep through
the winter. A bunch of everlasting flowers in a vase in
her little room would remind her in Stockholm of her
garden down in the south of Sweden.

The perennial yellow poppies were sown in the garden,
and these shed a quantity of seeds from which, in August,
fresh seedling plants come up round the parent plant.
This was precisely what my little girl had discovered when
she was quite a tiny tot. Without a word to anyone, she
carefully removed some of the young seedlings, and we
found them planted in quite a different part of the garden.
She had discovered how the transplanting should be done,
and was duly proud of her achievement.

On the whole, I think girls have a greater liking for
gardening than boys. From their earliest years onwards,
boys prefer such manly occupations as bridge-building or
the construction of forts.

Yet it would be unfair to assert that no boys like
gardening. I remember how a boy cousin and I roved far
into the woods and along meadows to look for flowers. He
was then about eight, and quite an adept in making
bouquets, and we used to compete as to who could make
up the prettiest one for the breakfast table of our grand-
mother— Queen Victoria.

We were also competitors in learning the names of
flowers. That was how I got to love flowers even as a
child. The English names are often so much more

THE VIEW FROM THE CHILDREN'S GARDEN ACROSS THE SEA.
From a Painting by the Crown Princess of Sweden.

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characteristic and more interesting to the mind of the child
than the botanical names — which I never could learn in
those days.

How the Flowers
get their Names.

Since then I have learnt many of their beautiful Swedish
names, just as characteristic as the English, and very often
very similar to those, since both have arisen from the same
source. Originally all education was in the hands of the
monks, and the majority of names have probably their
origin in Bible subjects. In those times the monks under-
stood how to teach the people, by the aid of their familiar
surroundings, to love both the history of the Bible and the
legends of the Church. To this end they gave each flower
a symbolic name, and each flower fulfilled a definite mission,
for, when the children picked the flowers, they were thus
reminded of a sacred subject.

The people were also taught to make stiff little
bouquets, take them to the church and put them on the
altar. Each season and saint had its particular flower,
and a large number of llowers were dedicated to the
Virgin Mary. The custom of carrying a bouquet to church
still survives in the country districts of Sweden.

The practice of dressing the Maypole with garlands on
Mid-Summer Eve is believed to be a survival of the teach-
ings of the monks, and is traced by some to the custom of
decorating the church for the Festival of St. John the Baptist.

My children have derived great pleasure from their
habit of digging up plants anywhere and putting them in
their own little patch. It seems that the modest wild
flowers appeal to them more than any other ones. They
are keenly interested in the experiment of making the
woodland flowers at home in their garden. It is just in
connection with this part of their garden-work that I try —
by means of legends and old sayings — to teach my little
ones how the flowers got their names. That makes them
remember and recognise the flowers when they see
them again.

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The Little Ones would have a
Rockery in their Garden.

Children must, of course,
imitate the grown - ups.

H ence our children would
have a rockery in their
garden. They got the earth
mound ready, just as we had
done, and then they began
to carry stones and pebbles
from the beach. 1 hey had to get a horse and cart to on a seat beside the
help them in their labours, for there is a steep hill from the
beach to Sofiero.

In the end, there were several smaller rockeries — for
each would have their own. They thought baby brother-
seven months old — ought to have a rockery, too. So big six-
year-old sister undertook to take charge of baby’s rockery
until the time when he would be able to see to it himself.

The different rockeries were each treated in a different
manner. Once, on a hot day, I saw that the one belonging
to one of the boys was altogether re-arranged. The soil
was being dug up afresh, and in the meantime all the plants
were on the path, carefully covered with a newspaper !

There they lay for several days. But in spite of this
somewhat drastic treatment, the plants took root once more,
and his rockery was the prettiest one after all — another
proof that plants thrive when the owner loves them.

These rockeries display a bit of everything. Stonecrops
with pink, white, and yellow llowers ; loosestrife in great
quantities, both the tiny yellow kind (official name,

Numnularia , but commonly known as creeping Jenny),
and the taller one. There are ferns creeping out from the
crevices. There is the annual many-coloured portulaca,
begonias, asters, and any gay-coloured llowers they can get
from the greenhouse, for the children ask the gardener for
any left-over ones. And there are even shrubs such as
azalea and spirtea, side by side with thistles, wild daisies,
and the flower that in English has the pretty name of

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■‘Our Lady’s Slipper.” There is Scdum tclephiwn (better
known to most people as “ Live-long”), the blue wild
veronica, daisy, thyme, cinquefoil (in by-gone years dedi-
cated to the Trinity), mint, wild pansy, yellow melilot, and
others. In a particularly cherished spot of the garden there
is a row of wild strawberries, transplanted in the fond hope
of their bearing fruit. But no matter how they are watered,
and what else is done for them, the wild strawberries will
not come as plentifully as the children had hoped.

During the long winter the children continue their
gardening experiments. All sorts of plants are taken to
Stockholm in the autumn— periwinkle, stonecrops, violets,
saxifraga, and so on. And they have, besides, a fernery
which answers very well. The tiny shoots that grow on
the leaves of some ferns are put in small pots. After about
six months these are sometimes half-a-yard high, and look
very well in the windows.

Every Child should
have a Garden.

Such a garden as that which I have here described, or
one on a smaller scale, would probably not be difficult to
arrange for children who live in the country. All these
simple flowers would be easy to obtain, and might grow
better even than in the garden of which I have been
speaking. In England tlowers bloom gaily in every little
cottage garden. We are not quite so far advanced with
our gardening in Sweden, but one must hope that it will
come to that in time.

Such a wholesome pleasure as a garden of their very
own might easily be arranged for the childen. In the vicinity
of the towns it is more difficult, I admit ; but it is just there
that the people have the greater need both of being in
direct touch with Nature, and of the joys that trees and
foliage and flowers can bring. And here the recently deve-
loped system of allotment gardens can be of much use.
Though the space is limited, and there is need of utilising
for vegetables even the small space that is granted, it seems
to me essential that some flowers should also be cultivated.

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that We Mado

All these allotment gardens have surely given much
pleasure to thousands of grown-up people and children.
And not only joy but also profit. Think what the children
can learn from such a plot ! And how happy are the hours
they spend beneath God’s open sky. I always look with
great interest upon the pretty attractive little spots when-
ever I pass any. The people always seem so happy
working there — the plots look so neat and so flourishing.
Surely there are many there who have learnt to understand
and to reverence the glory and joy of gardening through
tending an allotment.

It is written, “ Consider the lilies how they grow ; they
toil not neither do they spin. And I say unto you that
Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.”
One of the lessons which men and women should try to
teach the little ones is this : That nothing made by human
hands can be at all compared with the wonder and beauty
of God’s flowers. And also that these, the Lord’s own
handiwork, have been given to us for a joy and for an
ornament. T hey are within the reach of practically all of
us, for at least we can have some flower-pots inf -our
windows even if we have no plot of ground of our own ;
and we only have to sacrifice a little time each day to tend
the window plants with loving hands.

THE GARDENER’S

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PLAN OF
A PART OF
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Index

Ageratum, 11, 14.

“Aglaia,” Rose, 19.

Alstrrcmeria, 14.

Alyssum Saxatile, 45.

Anomatheca Cruenta, 45.

Ampelopsis Veitchii, 11.

Ancluisa Italica Dropmore, 56.
Anemones, 51, 53.

Angelica, 20.

“Anne of Geierstein,” Rose, 19.
Arabis, White, 41.

Asters, Tall Perennial, 56.

Aubretia, 41.

Autumn Crocus, 12.

Azaleas, 42.

Balsam, Giant, 51.

Baptisia Australis, 16.

“ Bar le Due,” Rose, 19.

Bartonea Aurea, 44.

Bergamot, 29.

Blossoms in Paved Path, 12.

Blue Flower Bed, The, 25.

Brook, The Path by the, 32.

Buddleia Veitchiana, 45.

Calendula, 56.

Campanula, 42.

Campanula Carpatica, 56.

Campanula Celtidifolia, 15, 16.
Campanula Pyramidalis, 8.

Candytuft, Evergreen, 41.

Canterbury Bells, 38, 56.

Carnations, White, “ Mrs. Sink-ins,”
11, 16.

Carrots in the Children’s Garden, 63.
Castle glimpsed through the trees,
The, 31.

Cerastium Biebersteini, 47.

Child’s Garden, Educational value of
a, 61.

Children of the Crown Princess, The
60, 61, 62, 63, 64.

Children and Flowers, 60.

Children’s Cottage and Garden, The,
46, 62.

Children’s Flowers, The, 64.

Chimney Bell-dower, 8.

Cianothus Gloire de Versailles, 45.
Clematis Lanuginosa, 46.

Cobble-stone Edging, 52.

Colours in the Flower Beds, 23.

“ Conrad Ferdinand Meyer,” Rose, iS.
Creeping Jenny, 41.

Crimson Ramblers, 11.

Crocuses, 12, 50.

Crucianella Stylosa, 41.

Daffodils, 56.

Daisies, White Autumn, 40.
Delphinium, 29
Dianthus Barbatus, 56.

“Dorothy Perkins,” Rose, 12, 13,
19, 23.

Down in the Valley, 47.

Espalier, An, 13, 15, 18.

Ferns, 45.

Flame flower, 30.

Flower Borders, The, 49.

Flower Border inThird Garden, The, 54.
Flowers the Children Planted, 64.
Flowers and Loving Hands, 60.
Flower Walk, The, 21, 27.

Foxgloves, 40, 44, 56.

Foxgloves, Yellow, 32.

“ Frau Karl Druschki,” Rose, 13, 18, 29.
Garden in Pine Forest, 54.

Garden on a Rocky Island, 56.
Gardener’s Cottage, 18, 21, 35.
Gentiana Acaulis, 42.

Gold and Grey Flower Bed, The, 25, 26.
Grouping the Flowers, 9.

“ Gruss au Teplitz,” Rose, 18.

Gunnera Spinosa, 29.

Gypsophila Repens, 42.

Gypsophila, White, in Rock Garden,
42.

Heliotrope, 11, 14.

Henchera, 56.

Herb Garden, The, 18, 19.

Herb Lily, 14.

“ Hiawatha,” Rose, 52.

Hospital for Flowers, The, 13.
Hollyhocks, 33.

House Leeks, 41 .

Hypericum, 42.

Hyssop, 20.

In the Park, 25.

Incarvillea Ddlevayi, 42.

Irises, 30.

“ Johanna Sebus,” Rose, 18.

“ Killarney,” Rose, 18.

Kitchen Garden, Transforming the, 1 2.
Knot Weed, 20.

Lamb’s Ear, 25, 30.

“ Laurette Messini,” Rose, 18.
Lavender, 7, 20.

Lilies, 24, 34.

Liliuni Auratum, 46.

Linaria Cymbalaria, 44.

“Lord Penzance,” Rose, 19.

Index

Lychnis, Red, 56.

Madonna Lilies, 24.

Marguerites, 56.

Marjoram, 20.

Mother cf Thousands, 45.

“ Mrs. Cutbush,” Rose, 24.

Mrs. Sinkins,” White Carnation,
11, 16.

Mullein, 9.

Musk Mallow, 8.

Myrrhis Odorata, 20.

Nasturtium, 23.

Nepeta Mussini, 15, 16.

Opuntia, 45

Other Gardens I have planned, 49.
Path from Rock Garden towards the
Sea, The, 48.

Paved Square, 16.

Paving, Flagged, >2.

Perennials, 10, 15, 20.

Pergola, A Rose, 16, 33.

Perioloca Groeca, 14.

Petunias and Rhododendrons in Rock
Garden, 44.

Phlox, 1 7, 34, 44.

Planning the Paths and Flower Beds, 7.
Pink Flower Bed, The, 24.

Polygonum, 15.

Ponds, The, 28, 30, 32.

Portulacas, 44, 56.

Potatoes in the Children's Garden, 63.
Prickly Rhubarb, 29, 31.

Prince and the Garden Hose, The, 63.
“ Prince de Bulgarie,” Rose, 18.
Radishes in the Children’s Garden, 63.
“ Rayon d’Or” Rose, 18.
Rhododendrons, 42, 44.

Rock Garden, The, 37, 39, 40, 41, 43.
Rockery by the Oak, The, 52.

Rockery Flowers, 53.

Rockery in Spring, The, 50.

Rocket, White, 56.

Rosa Hermosa, 29.

Rosemary, 20.

Roses —

Aglaia, 19.

Anne of Geierstein, 19.

Bar le Due, 19.

Conrad Ferdinand Meyer, 18.
Crimson Rambler, 11.

Dorothy Perkins, 12, 13. 19, 23.
Frau Karl Druschki, 13, 18, 29.
Gruss au Teplitz, 18.

Johanna Sebus, 18.

Killarney, 18.

Laurette Messini, 18.

Lord Penzance, 19.

Mrs. Cutbush, 24.

Prince de Bulgarie, 18.

Rayon, d’Or, 18.

Ruga, 19.

Souvenir du President Carnot, 18.
Tansendschbn. 52.

Turner’s Red Ramblers, 19.
Veilchenblau, 19.

White Dorothy, 14, 19.
Wichuriana, 12, 13.

Roses, Lavender and Lilies, 24.
Rudbeckia, Golden, 56.

Rue, 20.

“ Ruga,” Rose, 19.

Saxifragas, 41, 45, 54-
Scilla, 50.

Sedums, 44.

Silene, 41.

“ Snow in Summer,” 31.

“ Snow on the Mountains,” 41.
Sofiero Castle, 7, 33.

“ Souvenir du President Carnot,”
Rose, 18.

Speedwell, 42.

Spiraea, 1 1, 42.

Spring Flowers, 50.

Stachys Lanata. 30.

Steps in Rock Garden, 43.
Stonecrop, 44, 45.

Strawberries in the Children’s
Garden, 63.

Sundial, The, 14, 53.

Sunflowers, Perennial, 15.

Sweet Cicely, 20.

Sweet William, 43.

“ Tansendshon,” Rose, 52.

Tea Terrace, The, 30, 33.

Third Garden, The, 54, 55.

Thyme, 20.

Tropoeolum Speciosum, 30.
Tree-felling, 8.

Tulips, 51.

“Turner’s Red Ramblers,” 19.
Verbena Erinodes, 19.

“ Veilchenblau,” Rose, 19.

Viola Cornuta, 54.

Virginia Creeper, 11.

Waterside Flowers, 29.

Well, “ Antique,” 17.

Well, The Path from the, 24.
“White Dorothy” Roses, 14
“Wichuriana” Rose, 12, 13.

Yellow Flower bed, The, 22, 25.

Yew Hedge, The, 9.

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