Striking perfection, and looked their best in the fine setting of cut 

 Autumn Laurels and undipped Irish Yews wreathed with Tropaolum. 

 Groups ^ n tne summer this border had been equally effective with tall 

 Delphiniums and clumps of Lilies, while earlier still it was rich 

 with tree Peonies. Another good October effect in this garden 

 was a border of the tall cream Chrysanthemum Ralph Curtis 

 grouped with the pink Massey, while below these grew pink 

 Stocks and Mignonette, and in the wide herbaceous border 

 sloping up to a stone wall stood clumps of the effective deep 

 orange brown and pink Chrysanthemum Robbie Burns, grouped 

 with Rudbeckias, Helianthemums and fine Michaelmas Daisies. 

 A lovely bed of Monthly Roses, too, was still gay beneath the 

 long green sprays of standard Wichurianas. 



At Dalhousie again I left a magnificent blaze of Tritomas, 

 rich carpets of Violas, hedges of Fuschia gracilis, and many 

 another beauty. The sketch was taken from one group out of 

 many equally striking, which stood in the wide border under the 

 great curving wall. The old red and yellow Torch Lily and 

 Tritoma Leichtlini were all in big clumps, but the variety of Tri- 

 toma, John Senary, seemed to me far the finest of them all, flam- 

 ing red without a touch of yellow, and yet with a sort of bloom 

 over its brilliancy. On one side grew a mass of white Japanese 

 Anemones, and on the other Michaelmas Daisies, while the 

 edges of the path were broken by dwarf creeping plants of 

 every description. The tall Michaelmas Daisies were only 

 just opening, but there were some fine dwarf ones Amellus, 

 Distinction, River sleigh, Roger Palmer, and Acris. At 

 the edge of the path piercing the Saxifrages were Colchicum, 

 album plenum and speciosum album, and the mauve Crocus, 

 speciosus Aitchisoni. 

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