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experience of climate and aspect and soil, it will be easy to 

 decide on what we can grow satisfactorily, and what we 

 cannot. 



I have already alluded to the beautiful Golden Ivy, 

 which, when planted against a pier or over an old block, 

 stands out in striking relief against its more sombre 

 neighbour its first leaves come out perfectly green 

 but as the season advances the colour deepens into a 

 rich gamboge. I have seen Silver Ivy completely 

 covering the stem and branches of a huge old fruit tree, 

 without apparently much injury to the tree, which never 

 looked so beautiful before, even in the month of May. 

 In this case, I am bound to say, there had been no 

 annual clipping. 



It seems as if we had only reached the fringe of our 

 subject, and yet this chapter is already too long. When 

 we see from our windows bare empty beds spoiling the 

 landscape for a large part of the year while waiting for 

 their summer furniture, one often thinks what a garden 

 might be made, not of exotic mosaics, but of beds 

 bright with things beautiful all the year round Heaths, 

 and Azaleas, and Andromeda, and Evergreen Barberry, 

 and Star-bush, and Alpine Cotoneaster. 



Fabiana imbricata might well be mistaken for a Heath ; 

 in the early summer it is covered with small trumpet-like 

 white flowers. 



On more distant banks and rough places in the back- 

 ground our own native Furze should not be forgotten. 

 There is no season in the year when it will not bloom 



