JUNE 



IRISH GARDENING. 



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For those who admire contrast and striking colours, 

 the mixture of Hyacinth King of the Blues and Tulip 

 Keizerkroon will give just what is \\anted, while a bed 

 of Blood Red Wallflowers with Narcissus Barri con- 

 spicuus provides an old and much used combination. 



A large square bed which showed up prominently 

 consisted of the Double Arabis, flowering so profusely 

 as to resemble a sheet of snow through which appeared 

 the rich orange red flowers of Tulip Couleur Cardinal, 

 the edging being in this bed Aubrietia Hendcrsoni. 

 On either side of this 

 square bed were oblong 

 beds ; one was soft toned 

 in colour, consisting of a 

 lavender Viola Mrs. 

 George Price with the 

 Poets' Narcissus edged 

 with Double Arabis, the 

 other had the Double 

 Arabis for a ground work 

 with Narcissus Barri 

 conspicuus, and Tulip 

 Duchessede Parma 

 dotted through, and 

 edged with Aubrietia 

 Hendersoni. 



Another large and very 

 telling bed was produced 

 by Tulip Pink Beauty over 

 a ground work of Au- 

 brietia Hendersoni, with 

 the Double Arabis for an 

 edging. 



The globular flowers of 

 Tulip Bouton d'Or over 

 the Royal Blue Forget- 

 me-not. edged with 

 Double Arabis, made a 

 bright bed, although the 

 yellow of the tulips rather 

 dominated the bed. 



Double Arabis was 

 again used as an edging 

 for mixed tulips of three 

 kinds, and crocuses as a 

 ground work. A pro- 

 longed display can be 

 made by these beds if 

 mixtures are not disliked 

 — first the crocuses, then 

 the Dutch Tulips, fol- 

 lowed by May and the 

 Darwin Tulips. 



The public are always 

 attracted by bright colour, 

 and the long ribbon border 

 provides even for them a 

 plentitude. It consists of 

 six varieties of plants, 

 each kind making a broad 

 band of colour all the 

 way down the border. 



The first band is Double 

 Arabis, followed by Royal (From a plant 



Blue Forget-me-not, then Primrose Dame, Easterr. 

 Queen, Cloth of Gold, and Blood Red Wallflowers, 

 If the position of the two latter kinds were reversed it 

 would be an improvement, for in the back row the effect 

 of the Blood Red Wallflowers is lost at a distance. 

 These newer forms of Wallflowers are very useful for 

 colour effect. At Sutton House, long borders on either 

 side of a path are planted with these, and Forget-me-nots 

 in blocks of colour, and, backed by espalier fruit 

 trees in blossom, the eff^ect is very gay and pleasing. 



Bkrberis Stenopiivi.i.a. 



B. Empeirifolia X Darwiiiii. 



in Phrenix Park, photographed by C. F. Rail) 



