A LILY TANK 153 



many uses may best be seen ; for the long straight 

 line of the coping of a parapet may be redeemed 

 from monotony by a leaping wave-mass of a free- 

 growing Rose, with its spray-showers of clustered 

 bloom, and the tender grace of the best of the small 

 white-bloomed Clematises of spring and autumn is 

 never seen to better advantage than when wreathing 

 and decorating, but not hiding or overwhelming, the 

 well-wrought stonework that bounds the terrace and 

 crowns its wall. 



