In the Garden
Personal temperaments of owners and makers show in gardens as , vividly as in clothes, choice of food, and the arts. And where the control is shared, some compromise is always called for. That is why I am now looking down upon a transformation scene. After the decision to disinfect the rose-beds, the spirit of adventure took charge. The bush roses are now all lifted and heeled in down among the vegetables. What were rose-beds have been sprayed with tar-distillate and a touch of sulphur. They are.- now to be dug over and manured from the compost with a touch of bonemeal added. After that, the inmates of the long herbaceous border down the east side of.the garden are to be moved into the sterilised western beds, and ultimately the roses set where once the columbine and other perennials seemed so permanent. Such a complete change-over looks to me like a Parliamentary procedure.
. RICHARD CHURCH.
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