Crimson to flame round the dazzling crimson of Carmine Pillar, most 

 and Blue brilliant of red Roses. But when I began to speak this thought, 

 Flowers an ^ to Sa 7 besides that of course another season the Poppies 

 would have to be moved away somewhere else, the remark 

 of a visitor in the garden opened my eyes as with the force 

 of revelation. " Is there not," he said, " a certain barbaric 

 pomp about so strange a contrast ? " The hint was enough. 

 When I looked again, what Indian visions steeped in glory, 

 visions of Delhi and last year's Durbar floated through the 

 fiery brilliance of those border flowers. I think the Poppies 

 will not be moved. That very day their great silken petals began 

 to fall, and wind and weather scattered them away. In their 

 place unfolds a yet more enchanting " arrangement." Carmine 

 spoil of Roses is rained down upon the azure of Anchusa Italica. 

 Not the deep splendour of ultramarine, but that tenderer, 

 sympathetic blue, which more abounds in gardens best loved of 

 Anchusa, and where she flourishes the most willingly. Day by 

 day clouds of bright azure blue spread themselves abroad, and, 

 stealing upwards through the lowest branches of a Ptdia Kuhli 

 growing near, lay glimmering softly within the green, full half- 

 way to the Ptelia's top. Beside this blue, between tall ribbon 

 leaves, shone the flowers of milk-white bloom, of a great bed of 

 Iris ochroleuca, and, beyond, a dark tree of Prunus plsardi 

 dressed in Summer brown made an ideal background. 



At right angles with the flower-border which has been 

 thus delighting us, opens out a straight gravel path running 

 east and west, radiant in June with the colours and fragrant with 

 the rich bloom, of some choice perfumed Peonies. On each side 

 glow great round heads of deepest crimson, or rose-pink ; or of 

 white lit up all gloriously within, by a golden glow. The great 



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