ABSTRACT
Coming from the big botanical garden of Edinburgh with its fifty gardeners, here, in Dundee, Geddes with difficulty and scanty funds got scope to have one. There were more obstacles than botanic gardeners are used to: poor soil, hard climate, sea-winds blowing round high buildings, and factory smoke. Out of a collection of hardy roses chosen by the best local grower only one kind could resist this rigorous environment and really thrive and blossom. An artist and his wife now joined authors, and she told the author a story about the big elm tree standing in the entrance drive. Before Geddes came to the college, the architect, thinking the tree in the way, had ordered it to be cut down. One forced its way into the narrow mouth of the flower to get her honey in the proper way.
