MAKING A NEW GARDEN.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20075, 16 April 1927, Page 3

MAKING A NEW GARDEN.

Tha delight of making a garden, even in the mixture of sand and cement and broken brick that makes hideous the ground in front of a new house, is described by Mr C. Pointing in an English journal. “Certainly,” ho says, “those people with a now garden to make are pitied, but, after all, are they not to be envied rather than pitied? “The pitied householder is not eo unfortunate as wo might think. Ho is in the position of an artist who has a blank piece of paper and a pencil. His skill and imagination will enable him to produce on that piece of paper a picture pleasing to the eve. So it is with the new gardener. Ho has the responsibility, especially if his garden fronts the road, of planting his soil so that it shall please passcrsby as well a» himself.” Then he tells of some of the beauty with which he has encircled his own home. “Have your little patch of grass on which to tit in the summer evenings by all means, but remember that the border near the house is the one which you will sec most of.” He tolls us then of his own border, 4ft wide, in which ho has planted tweet scented roses, spaced in a manner which wrings horrified protests from all rosarians who see it. One foot apart and strong growers! Well, you sec, that window happens to be the window of m» bedroom I Have you ever looked out ,n cool of a summer night when the dow is on the rotes, illuminated by a full moon, or first thing in the morning when the buds are absolutely perfect in shape and colouring? X like to look out of that window at my roses, to inhale the scent, mingled in the evening with tufts of night stock cunningly concealed right at the back of the border.'’ We can easily believe that, as be tells us, that borde,r is one of the joys of his garden. “How I feed it,” he says, “with nonomea! and basic slag and cover it with rotted manure in spring- Never a weed is to be found there. And it repays mo with roses which would grace an exhibition board. Three years ago it was savage ground ne left by the builder.”