there immense clumps of different plants grow up unchecked. Summer. 

 As a rule, within so small a space the beds would be laid out in Secret of 

 low, level plots, and the whole garden would be seen at once, Variety 

 without a break. Here, however, are vistas between orange 

 Alstroemeria and scarlet Lychnis, or lawns two yards square 

 shut in with Roses and Larkspur and double white Campion, and 

 short lengths of espalier, and trees of the brown-leaved Prunus ; 

 so that one secret of laying out a small garden is unconsciously 

 attained the secret of variety. For in your limited space, you 

 must vary the lines as much as possible, and if your ground 

 lacks length and breadth, then variation must come in the 

 differing heights. Thus Cosmos bipinnatus grows here in the 

 Beautiful Garden, in great thickets four feet high : a maze of 

 delicate green filagree. As July wanes into August Cosmos ap- 

 pears " attired in stars " of pink interchanged with crimson. 



. . . There is the sound of a click ! of lifting the latch of 

 a gate ; the narrow little gate called Empire. And there is but 

 time for one glance at that choice flower of delight, Incarvillea 

 Delavayi, erect in all his pride of stature flushed with rose, as 

 he stands near the little portal. I must make haste away before 

 she enters, for to meet the Lady of Flowers thus early within her 

 sacred garden precinct would be, in her eyes, unforgiveable 

 sacrilege. 



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