Picturesque with pink Alstroemeria ; and the deeper coloured Campanula 



Flower latifolia with the Spiraeas, aruncus and gigantea. The white 



Garden Campanula macrantha, which in Scotland and the North of 



England seems to excel most of the other varieties for effect, 



making spikes four to five feet high hung with large white 



or purple bells, is grouped with Delphiniums or white Mallows 



Senecio Tanghulticus^^, tall Thalictrums, and other yellow plants 



such as Isatls glauca^ grow near the deep blues of Monkshood, 



Dracocepha/um Ruyscbiana Eryngium, Echinops, and the 



variegated form of the large Comfrey. 



Under the wall, which is clothed with creepers throughout 

 its whole length, the curved border has still more richly coloured 

 groups. The deep red Monarda didyma^ its taller Rosy form 

 Kalmiana, and clumps of deep blue Monkshood grow below 

 the Blush Rambler^ which hangs a sheet of rose colour on 

 the wall near the white Roses which cling to the buttresses. 

 In shadier places are groups of the exquisite green-blue 

 Meconopsis Wallichii^ and of the white Martagon Lily, thrown 

 up by masses of the golden yellow Croceum. 



It was too early in the year for the full effect of all the 

 half hardy plants, which are set out in June, such as the blue 

 and scarlet Salvias, the pale yellow Calceolaria of which very 

 striking use is made by keeping the old plants Lobelia 

 cardinality deep red Pentstemon, Heliotrope, etc. 



Another garden only a few miles away Dalhousie 

 shows how successfully Roses can be grown in Scotland. All 

 the newest Teas and Hybrids are tried there, and most of them 

 with success. The beds lie on a warm slope of the walled 

 garden, with an extra screen of Irish Yews, which make 

 the best of all backgrounds. Old-fashioned Hybrids, like 



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