146 A GARDEN OF PLEASURE 



beauty of these fine hyacinthus flowers 

 failure in the purity of their whiteness. 



Against a low beech hedge at the back 

 there is a stately line of auratum lilies, 

 counting seventy-three great heads of 

 bloom with store of buds rich in promise 

 for weeks far into the autumn. And 

 around the lilies are enlaced large African 

 marigolds of lemon and deep gold colour, 

 with scattered posies of little striped 

 French marigolds and of Zinnia Haageana. 

 At the farthest end a thicket of dianthus 

 superbus scents half the garden, and nearest 

 to the Fantaisie, a narrow grass walk in- 

 tersecting the border and leading into 

 Glorietta is fringed with lobelia sene- 

 cioides luxuriantly green, and most deli- 

 cately blue. Chrysanthemum tricolor fills 

 up the corner, and on the other side deep 

 purple and blue perennial-blooming pansies 

 set off the clean yellow rays and chocolate 

 eyes of Rudbeckia Newmannia. Towering 

 above the junipers tall 'flowers of the 

 Sun' keep watch, their green buds not 

 opened yet. Mignonette and honied alys- 

 sum and orange and red tigridias seem to 



