My Garden in Spring 



picked forms with extra rich purple and red colouring in 

 the filaments, some from Mt. Cenis meadows, other seed- 

 lings I have raised here from good forms, but the last one 

 towards the Yew is the pure white form that occurs in 

 sub-alpine woods and came home with me one year from 

 Airolo. These are very ordinary plants, but growing in 

 this grouping they gave me great pleasure. The path 

 shown leads straight away to the river bank, and when 

 viewed from its centre shows as a finish, one of the beds 

 of the Terrace. At this moment it was aglow with Clara 

 Butt Tulip, and through the summer months we keep it 

 flaming away with Salvia splendens, Pride of Zurich. 



The Pergola Garden and its warm, well-sheltered 

 borders are full of interest just now. Erysimum pumilum 

 from Mt. Cenis is happier here than anywhere in the rock 

 garden, and one of the most brilliant, clear-yellow flowers 

 imaginable. I was astounded at its beauty the first time I 

 saw it growing on the rough, rocky shore of the lake among 

 Gentiana angulosa and sheets of Globularia and Dryas, 

 almost dazzling in its brilliancy. It looked so good- 

 tempered and even aged there, that I marvelled why I had 

 never seen it in English gardens. It flowers here as well 

 as there, one solid mass only three inches high of Wall- 

 flower blossoms of purest yellow, but I must own that it 

 has a way of dying off after flowering here, that its woody 

 stock and antique appearance on the Cenis show to be due 

 to something lacking in this lowland situation, and so we 

 have to look out carefully for seeds or self-sown seedlings. 

 Ribes speciosus is a sprawling octopus whose tentacles are 

 covered with brown spines and crimson Fuchsia blossoms. 

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