48 A WHITE-PAPER GARDEN 



excellent and hardy in such situations, and 

 there must be roses everywhere. Even in 

 March the strong canes and thorns of the 

 roses are attractive, and although they have 

 no leaves the tiny scarlet buds are bright with 

 promise. Stiff junipers and standard box and 

 fire-berries must group themselves along the 

 wall irregularly, and there must be a thicket 

 or two of Thunberg's barberry with coral tips 

 along its quickset branches. This good little 

 shrub bears the only berry which retains its 

 colour all the winter. An upright evergreen 

 euonymus is so great a favourite with me that 

 I must have it standing sentinel wherever a 

 sentinel is needed. In and around these 

 bushes as much myrtle as chooses may grow 

 unhindered, since nothing can be more cheer- 

 ful than its shining leaves. 



In the warmest angles of the wall I must 

 have many plantings of the small-flowered 

 yellow jessamine, which ought to be hardy 

 everywhere, but which needs a bit of shelter 

 as far north as Philadelphia. Its green canes 

 are prettily angled and curve most gracefully, 

 its pointed buds are so eager to turn them- 

 selves into golden stars that a bush is almost 



