COLOUR IN MY GARDEN 



apex of its diminishing stalk, I cannot understand. As well 

 crown the spire of a cathedral with a cartwheel and ask for 

 praise! The Cup-and-saucer Canterbury Bell is another 

 lauded development far inferior to the normal type. The 

 simple bell form is always beautiful; to turn it into a cup 

 and saucer is to degrade it. 



And then we come to the borders where free-growing June 

 Roses hold their gracious court. I do not know why these 

 are not more often used in wide borders among hardy 

 plants. They accept such a position with entire equanimity, 

 lending a certain stability of appearance to the borders and 

 in the season of their flowering creating pictures of trans- 

 cendent loveliness. Stanwell's Perpetual Scotch Brier is 

 exquisite, with faintly scented brier foliage and clouds of 

 small, delicately flushed double Roses. The two yellow- 

 flowering Roses, Harison's and the Persian, the latter more 

 golden and more full petalled than the former, are splendid 

 in the borders grouped with soft lavender Irises and white 

 Lupines. Madame Plantier is a lovely free-growing white 

 sort and the rugosa hybrids Madame Georges Bruant, 

 Blanc Double de Coubert, Conrad F. Meyer, and the 

 brilliant Souvenir de Pierre Leperdrieux are fine and 

 suitable for such a purpose. Even the gay red-and-white 

 striped Damask Roses like York and Lancaster and 

 Village Maid are quaintly charming with an edge of white 

 Pinks and mauve Horned Violets and some companion 

 groups of soft blue Lupines. 



If I had plenty of space I should certainly have a border 

 given up entirely to early June. I should arrange it in some 

 inconspicuous place where it need not be visited save at the 



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