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would be time to change the character of the plant- 

 ing, though perhaps still within the Rose family, so 

 that next we might have that pretty thornless Tree 

 Bramble Rubus deliciosus, and below it some of the 

 other unarmed Brambles, the rosy R. odoratus and 

 the white R. nutkanus. Then there might come a 

 stretch of wall for winter bloom ; the yellow Winter 

 Jasmine (/. nudiflorunt) and Winter Sweet {Chimon- 

 anthus fragrans) and Garrya elliptica ; the evergreen 

 branches of the Garrya partly protecting the naked 

 bloom of the Chimonanthus, 



These are only a few of the combinations that 

 might be made ; while long lengths of wall may 

 well be given to Vines, with Lilies and Irises at their 

 foot, and with here and there a thin climber such 

 as one of the large-flowered Clematises, or Rhodo- 

 chiton volubile, to run among their branches. For 

 gate-piers of wrought stone that are in still more 

 dressed ground nothing is more suitable than that 

 splendid climber, the best form of Bignonia radicans, 

 but it is too tender for the cold midlands. 



When a garden prospect embraces the view of an 

 ancient building it seems to reduce the range of choice 

 to within much narrower limits. In the garden shown 

 in the picture this has evidently been felt, in that here 

 is a good planting of the June-flowering Paeonies and 

 nothing much else. Had it suited the other needs of 

 the garden as well, it might have been even better to 

 have planted large masses of sober greenery, as of Yew 

 and Box, with no other flowers than some bold clumps 

 of white Lilies and a few bushes of white Roses, and 



