OUR SENTIMENTAL GARDEN 



The weather, which had been misty, thundery and un- 

 promising, cleared just upon our arrival at the great 

 " Adam " house. The lawns were in their perfection, the 

 shade of the Cedars was cut out on the sun-golden turf, the 

 massed flowers were vivid against their cunningly devised 

 backgrounds. Naturally Villino Loki, even in its wildest 

 dreams, cannot emulate this great and carefully cherished 

 place/ but one can find practical suggestions here and 

 there. We cannot mass rare and golden-hued Maples 

 over a broad band of yellow Calceolarias anywhere on 

 our terraced lawns / but it is very instructive to see the 

 management of certain herbaceous borders, where three or 

 four large pillars of Rambler Roses alternate with mauve 

 and silver-leaved Japanese Maples at the back/ the fore- 

 ground being of the usual herbaceous order. 

 We had no idea that the dwarf bright yellow Evening 

 Primroses would look so well grouped together. And 

 Nemesia, "Heavenly Blue/ 7 has become the one annual 

 our souls long for : blue flowers are all too rare. 

 Everything was most kindly labelled. We do not know 

 if it is possible to obtain any seedlings this time of year / 

 but certainly, next year, this adorable little plant, Nemesia, 

 with its most exquisite turquoise blue colourings and its 

 splendid efflorescence, shall enter largely into our schemes. 

 In between the Nemesia, bushes of Campanula Persicifolia 

 rose with cool restrained tones/ the contrast was one to 

 be copied also. 



Another not impossible example was a Rose screen, 

 starting with a background of close growing Ramblers, 

 some ten or twelve feet high, supplemented midway by 

 some of the larger Bush Roses and running down to the 

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