FLOWERS FOR SHADE AND SUNSHINE 



in winter sodden and in summer sour. If such soil were 

 really thoroughly dug in early autumn, and wood ashes, 

 lime and brick rubble, strawy manure, and road scrapings 

 mixed with it, its mechanical condition would soon 

 improve, and the plants I have enumerated would give 

 it fresh and varied interest. If a fence bounds the border 

 in the shade one may cover it with Ivy, or, better still, 

 with those rampant climbers, Traveller's Joy (Clematis 

 Vitalba) and Polygonum baldschuanicum, the latter of 

 which wreaths itself in cream- white blossom twice a year. 

 Or one may, without very much trouble, induce a red 

 rose in the shape of Reine Marie Henriette to thrive there, 

 a pink one in the giant Conrad F. Meyer or the old 

 Gloire de Dijon in its own inimitable shades of cream 

 and yellow. 



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