END OF SPRING, SUMMER PLANS 



shading from crimson, through Firefly and Rose-Doree, to 

 palest pink. 



The terrace immediately under the house runs, according 

 to our invariable summer programme, to cool colours and 

 sweet scents. Under the dining-room and drawing-room 

 windows, besides the transient prospect of the White 

 Lilies, there are to bloom <until the frost lays waste) 

 Heliotrope and Nicotiana, with pale pink Ivy-leaf 

 Geranium to contrast with the mauve and purple, and 

 blue Lobelia to rim the outer border of White Pinks. 

 Against the terrace wall, between the tall Madonna Lilies, 

 which show good promise, and the Polyantha Roses, red 

 and white, with the thick edging of " Mrs. Sinkins," Lobelia 

 and Petunia shall spread. The pots will bear their cus- 

 tomary summer burthen of rose Ivy-leaf Geraniums, with 

 Lobelia too, and the Zonals. We like them to flaunt 

 against the moor. 



Below, in the Blue Border, the Delphiniums and the 

 Anchusas, the great old-established White Rose bushes, 

 the steel blue Thistle, must make what show they can 

 over the annuals Nigella, Gypsophila and Nemophila 

 not forgetting the kind Campanulas, so dear, so faithful, 

 so hardy ! In fine contrast, on the other side of the grass 

 walk, the Dorothy Perkins hedge will spread its vivid 

 masses, and fling out its irrepressible garlands over the 

 border of bright blue Nemophila we have had the 

 audacity to sow. 



And below, in the Hemicycle, the colours are to grow 

 cool again, with Heliotrope between the Lilies, the 

 Lavenders, and the Monthly Roses, and Fortune's Yellow 

 and Reve d'Or running up the supporting wall. 



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