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we may try to diversify them as much as possible. 

 The following are among my most successful : A 

 bed of Agapanthus, with its beautiful foliage and 

 sky-blue umbels, is surrounded with bright yellow 

 Peacock Gazania ; a bed of scarlet Lobelia cardi- 

 nalis (is this the " Cardinal Flower " that American 

 writers speak of?) is edged with the white Ribbon- 

 grass, and that again with the blue Lobelia 

 speciosa ; and a second bed of the same Lobelia 

 cardinalis, the bronze foliage of which harmonises 

 so well with the spikes of glowing red, has the 

 Lobelia speciosa next to it, and the Golden Pyre- 

 thrum as a border. Another bed is of Humea 

 elegans, edged with the white variegated-leaved 

 Miss Kingsbury Pelargonium, and that again with 

 the blue Lobelia. Into other beds I have introduced 

 the variegated Aloe and the Aralia, as centres for 

 the more dwarf and brightly-coloured Verbenas. 



Of the variegated Pelargoniums I find the 

 Beauty of Calderdale the most effective and most 

 vigorous, and though I am told " Mrs. Pollock has 

 a most excellent constitution/' she does less well 

 with me. One other bed, which is now over, has 

 been too pretty for me not to mention ; it was a 

 bed of Antirrhinums of all colours, and I shall 

 certainly repeat it another year. Lastly, I have a 



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