r J~fHIS happy mingling of blossoming boughs 

 ± and exuberant, flowery climber is created 

 by the lovely Crabapple (Pyrus or Malus 

 floribunda) growing beside an arbour over which 

 trail the long branches of a white Wistaria. 

 The Tulips in the border below are the Darwin 

 Nauticus, the Iris is the Intermediate Empress, 

 seen also in Plate No. 9 (May 28th) which is 

 painted from a little further along this same 

 border. 



Arabis, Daffodils, and lavender creeping Phlox 

 flower here a month earlier. 



In June a fine group of Delphinium bell- 

 adonna flowers with a foreground of coral- 

 coloured Heuchera, and by the time the Delphi- 

 nium is spent and has been cut down a strong 

 plant of Gypsophila paniculata has spread out 

 and covered its defection flowering delicately 

 and making a striking picture with the orange 

 Day Lilies (Hemerocallis fulva) that grow thickly 

 beneath the tree, and some clumps of Blue- 

 spiked Veronica (Veronica spicata). 



Often blue annual Cornflowers are added to 

 this group, and, if the frost spares them, are 

 pretty enough with the small yellow Chrys- 

 anthemums that bloom here late in the season. 



