ate spring. Here too in Nature's Rock garden, between the Flower 

 mortarless bricks clasped together with golden brown lichen, rise Grouping 

 in their season clumps of winter Marjoram, Red Valerian, Snap- 

 dragons, Wall Rue, and black Spleenwort, and Hart's Tongue 

 ferns have also firmly established themselves. Art lends her aid 

 with iron gates of classic design, here and there a leaden statue, 

 or a marble vase, a dripping fountain, or a draw-well. On the 

 way to the house another type of gardening prevails. Groups 

 of flowering shrubs are arranged, chief of which are Deutzias, 

 Weigelas, Lilacs, Double Genista, Choisya, Berberis, and 

 Moutan Pseonies. Nor must we be surprised if in sheltered 

 glades, exposed to the sun, Eucrypbia pinnatlfolia^ Bamboo, 

 Carpentaria, Cassalpina, Caryopteris, and other tender subjects 

 are found. There also is the home of Cyclamens, rewarding 

 by a rich profusion of flowers the slight protection they receive 

 from some majestic forest tree, at the base of which they cluster. 

 Over the grass in spring-time Daffodils, swaying in the breeze, 

 form a sea of unbroken bloom which breaks away into curves 

 that sweep in and out among the trees, or lose themselves among 

 the shrubs through which they thread their way to be massed 

 in yet another vast group. 



In flower-gardening the present is a transition period, and 

 in Scotland things have not yet righted themselves. But, on the 

 whole, the old order is changing very rapidly. Greater taste 

 is evident in the substitution of delicate colour-groups, in place 

 of the vivid ribbon border. 



Roses are more used, either by themselves or grouped with 

 herbaceous plants. Charming effects may be seen, such as the 

 Blush China Rose surrounding the pink Spir&a palmata, and the 

 more salmon pink Rose, Laurette M essimy, among the Phlox, Boule 



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