SCOTTISH GARDENS 



flowers in most gardens, was thickly set with scarlet 

 tubes in an open, but rather shady, border. Alpine 

 anemones, both the white and the sulphur, were just 

 over, but bore traces of recent display in hundreds 

 of seed-tufts on tall stems. Very conspicuous and 

 attractive was a seedling perennial lupine, bearing 

 spikes of clear salmon colour, and near it a starry 

 firmament of globe-flowers (Trollius), lemon-yellow, 

 sulphur and fiery orange, none of them, in our opinion, 

 equal in grace and delicacy to the native T. europceus. 



Pansies and violas were in infinite variety and 

 copious bloom, the pure tints of these easiest of flowers 

 being admirably shown up by the plan of planting 

 them in strips of different colours drawn diagonally 

 across a long border. Incarvillea grandiflora, hitherto 

 reputed somewhat tender, here grows in the open and 

 on the flat as generously as its taller and better known 

 relative /. Delavayi] and that, as we all have learnt 

 to our content, combines the constitution of a dande- 

 lion with the refinement of a gloxinia. 



Sisyrinchium odoratissimum I have not seen else- 

 where. It is to be hoped that Mr. Cocker will succeed 

 in propagating it, for it is an interesting thing, 

 hanging out white bells striped with purple on airy 

 stalks a foot and a half high. The rarest treasure in 

 the herbaceous section is a pure white Alstrcemeria 

 chilensis, of which Mr. Cocker possesses a single plant, 

 obtained, after long and difficult negotiation, from an 

 amateur who raised it. 



A pretty feature in these nurseries is a pergola 



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