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are mingling in more or less tended profusion 

 with such strangers as the steel-blue Eryngium, 

 the gleaming white Pyramidal Saxifrage, the rosy 

 Rhododendron hirsutinn and its American cousin, 

 R. punctatum, of larger, clearer pink flowers. And 

 when, after a time, the plateau at the summit of the 

 garden is reached, we are met by an expanse of 

 such varied, glowing colour as is indeed difficult to 

 describe with any true degree of sufficiency. 

 Although the plants are mainly grouped according 

 to their countries, they are arranged with a keen 

 eye to effect. The vivid orange Lilium crocetnri 

 from the Simplon and the rich plum - coloured 

 Verbascum phoeniceum are near neighbours of the 

 lively-violet Campanula nobilis from Japan, of the 

 brilliant orange Senecio Tyrolensis and of the fiery- 

 sprayed Heuchera sanguinea from the Sierras of 

 ISlexico. Many kinds of lovely Columbines and 

 Delphiniums are rubbing shoulders with the tall 

 and decorative pale-yellow Scabious {Cephalaria)^ 

 with the nobly-plumed Spircea Aruncus, and with 

 the deep brick- red Potentilla atrosanguinea from 

 the Himalaya and the dwarf white Potentilla 

 Clusiana from the Alps of Austria. Hosts of 

 lovely Saxifrages and Androsaces, too, in infinite 

 variety, are in neighbourly communion with a 



