290 A BOOK OF ENGLISH GARDENS 



being set apart for a special plant, making a kind of 

 Garden for it alone. The surprise is great when the 

 eye first catches sight of the Garden of Michaelmas 

 Daisies, mauve, purple, and white all blended in 

 a feathery mist. Planted in a wide border, on 

 each side of a walk, with a hedge of Filberts 

 and some dark Portugal Laurels as a background, 

 the effect is most picturesque. White Dahlias are 

 the only other plants allowed near the Daisies, their 

 colouring harmonising perfectly together. 



In the wild Garden, near the wood, there is a 

 special early spring Garden for Primroses 



" Pale Primroses, 



That die unmarried ere they can behold 

 Bright Phoebus in his strength " ; 



while in June the Peonies spread a crimson glory 

 over their "special region." 



Near the house is a stone Pergola, and lower 

 down in the Garden is to be found that rarity, a 

 regular rough Italian type of Pergola, covered with 

 the giant Gourds, the leaves of which are magnifi- 

 cently decorative. The Flower Garden is cleverly 

 separated by this Pergola from another half Kitchen 

 and half Flower Garden. The latter is intersected 

 with clipped hedges of different kinds, one being 

 particularly fine and high, of Lawson's Cypress, 

 proving a great protection for the flowers from the 



