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and see and enjoy. There is no bewilderment, 

 because there is no jumble or crowding of irrelevant 

 items. Everything falls into its place, and a quiet 

 progress through any one of the paths presents a 

 succession of garden-pictures that look not so much 

 as if they had been designed and made but as if 

 they had just happened to come so. There is 

 nothing perhaps to provoke that violent excitement 

 of wonderment so dear to the uneducated, but there 

 will be, alike to the plant lover and to the garden 

 artist, the satisfaction of a piece of happy gardening, 

 without strain or affectation, beautiful and delightful 

 in all its parts and growing easily and pleasantly out 

 of its environment. 



The shrubs named as those best fitted for the 

 upper portions of the rock may well have an occa- 

 sional exception, for though the masses must be 

 large enough to give a feeling of dignity, they must 

 not degenerate into monotony. This can be secured 

 either by the free growth or rather overgrowth of 

 some of the shrubs named, such as that of Brooms 

 and Cistus cyprius or by the use of a shrub of larger 

 stature, such as Juniper. 



Veronica Traversi, as it grows older and assumes a 

 small tree shape, is one of this class and Cassinia 

 fulvida is another. Rosemary and Lavender also, 

 after a few years of rather close and neat growth, 

 rise and spread and open out, showing trunk-like 

 stems. This older state, which has a somewhat 

 unkempt look in the neater parts of the garden, give 

 these shrubs that rather wilder habit that fits them 



