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literature. It is also used as a place for classifying 

 plants and arranging the colour schemes for 

 borders a very necessary consideration, and one 

 too often neglected, to judge from the crude effects 

 often seen ; though in these days colour is put 

 before everything (but not always successfully), and 

 often the dignity of design is forgotten, as well 

 as the power of simplicity. From this Arbour a 

 covered way, having a little roof of red tiles sup- 

 ported on oak pillars stretches out to the wall 

 beyond. A post-and-rail trellis for climbing Roses 

 runs all round one side of the Garden, and when the 

 trees are in bloom the effect must be quite that 

 of a Rose Bower. 



Close to the wall near the Arbour is a most 

 magnificent bed of Michaelmas Daisies, ranging in 

 colour from deepest purple to palest mauve, and 

 intermixed with white. Hardly any flower of the 

 kind has more decorative value in masses than 

 this delicate, feathery-looking Daisy, which glows 

 with star-like beauty even during the dull Autumn 

 days, when hardly any colour is to be seen in the 

 Garden, except the glorious reds and yellows of the 

 Autumn tints in the dying leaves. 



The ordinary name Aster applied to Michaelmas 

 Daisies would surprise the uninitiated, who always 

 associate the word with the prim, stiff-looking China 

 Aster (Callistephus chinensis] the annual so often 

 used for bedding-out purposes in villa Gardens. 



