THE SHRUBBERY 87 



One always has one's little ambitions, espe- 

 cially about things that refuse to do in the 

 garden ; and one of mine runs to the growing 

 of Choisya ternata and Myrtle out of doors. 

 The first I have tried ; the second I shall try, 

 and, I suppose, fail with it as I failed with 

 Choisya. For though I planted it in a shel- 

 tered corner it died the first winter ; while in 

 the Bagshot nurseries, where it flourishes and 

 blooms twice a year, Mr. Waterer says it is 

 only cut by severe frost once in seven to ten 

 winters. 



The beauty of the shrubbery that should 

 serve to set off our bright borders and well- 

 kept lawns, and to modify the landscape of 

 our gardens for even in half an acre there is 

 plenty of scope for "landscape gardening" 

 greatly depends on a judicious mixture of de- 

 ciduous trees and shrubs with Rhododendrons 

 and other evergreens. And here our only diffi- 

 culty is the embarras de choix ; for it is easy 

 to drop into a mere catalogue, if one tries to 

 enumerate the scores of flowering shrubs avail- 

 able nowadays. The essential point to be 



