Hydrangeas friends. At Gravetye, in the second week of August, there 

 and Tiger were several most attractive colour groups. Hydrangeas were 

 Lilies coming out, their soft blue panicles of flower beautiful near a 

 great mass of salmon-orange Lilium tigrinum Fortunei. These 

 Lilies were only just beginning to open a few of their number of 

 grey woolly buds, and should still be in beauty in September. 

 The variety splendent is perhaps the finest of all, and flowers 

 a little later. All the Tiger Lilies are easy to grow, and are 

 wonderfully effective anywhere. They like a sandy loam with 

 some leaf-mould and manure as a top-dressing. Hydrangeas 

 suffer from frost, and to be seen at their best must have a mild 

 warm climate. There are clumps in a cottage garden near here, 

 on some of the highest land in Kent, which flower profusely, 

 but they remain low and rather stiff in form. In Cornwall or 

 Devonshire they grow into big bushes and make a lovely soft 

 effect of blue under the shade of trees. Hydrangea paniculata 

 grandtflora is a handsome kind, growing four or five feet high 

 with pointed white sprays about a foot long. We have not 

 been successful with it, but I have seen it growing splendidly 

 on a cold clay soil. 



The Everlasting Pea Lathy r us latifolius is most useful 

 now, either forming great bushes supported by stakes or 

 fastened to a trellis and allowed to tumble negligently at will. 

 White, blush-pink, and a rather common rose-pink, may be 

 had. The white looks well anywhere, under a tangle of 

 Clematis Jackmanni for instance, or climbing round the base 

 of a pergola with the vivid scarlet of that delightful little 

 plant Zauschnerla californica beneath it. The real Sweet Pea 

 can be very effectively used in gardens too if distinct colours are 

 grouped together, mauve and purple in one place, and pink and 



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