234 ANCIENT SUSSEX GAME OF STOOLBALL 



we value the former chiefly because in most cases 

 their leaves are with us throughout the winter 

 months and help to give life to long stretches of 

 brown earth beds. 



Just now, is a good moment for noting which 

 plants do best and look well when seen near to- 

 gether in close companionship. For instance, a 

 carpet of corydalis with pale yellow aquilegias 

 springing up through it seems to lead well in colour 

 to a large bush of Buddleia globosa, the golden 

 balls of which are of a stronger tone. Near these 

 a Phlomis has flowers and foliage of a softer shade 

 but amalgamates well with this yellow portion of 

 the border. We endeavour to arrange plants 

 according to colour-scheme suggestions that are 

 found in Mr. W. Robinson's " English Flower 

 Garden," so that one part consists of blue flowers, 

 merging gradually into white, which is followed 

 perhaps by a pale yellow, leading to stronger 

 shades and then to reds. Each of our students 

 has a fixed portion of border handed over to her 

 care, and a prize is allotted to the one who has the 

 best-kept border at the end of July. In the blue 

 portion are delphiniums, anchusa, and Clematis 

 integrifolia rising from a carpet of myosotis with 

 here and there a clump of rosemary to give soft 

 green foliage and a relief from overmuch colour. 

 Then, in the pink portion are Canterbury bells, 

 Incarvillea Delavayi, and pseonies ; in later summer 

 these are followed in succession by pink phloxes 

 and gladioli in succession. 



Later in the day I walk across the hills to a 

 wide shadow group of tall trees that lie at one 



