COLOUR IN MY GARDEN 



all shades, with the starlike flowering in May of Clematis 

 montana, with ropes of purple Wistaria and some space 

 left for the scarlet autumn hangings of Virginia Creeper. 



Stone, of course, furnishes as fine a background, and stucco, 

 gray or white, is nearly as good. For pergolas and arbours 

 white woodwork is the most effective though in my garden the 

 long central arbour is stained so dark a green as to be almost 

 black and takes its place in the garden pictures with force 

 and beauty. In England I saw a circular Rose arbour 

 painted very light apple green. Upon it grew white and 

 pale lemon coloured Roses with now and then a great splash 

 of purple Clematis, and in the narrow beds at the base of the 

 posts were crowding purple and lavender Violas, delicate 

 Ferns, and white Stocks. It was most unusually fresh and 

 pretty. 



Some fine Roses and other climbers suited to pumpkin- 

 coloured and red walls and to chocolate-coloured ones are: 

 Roses Silver Moon, Alberic Barbier,' Gardenia, Trier, 

 Bennett's Seedling, and Rene Andre; White Wistaria, Cle- 

 matis Jackmanii, Henryii, montana and paniculata; Poly- 

 gonum baldschuanicum; Honeysuckles of all sorts includ- 

 ing the yellow-leaved variety; and Actinidia arguta. 



In the pink garden Peonies are next in importance to 

 Roses. To-day the May-flowering Peony is neglected. In 

 peaceful old gardens that remain unfretted by changing 

 fashions and modern introductions we are apt to find huge 

 bushes of the old May-flowering Peony or "Piny" as it is 

 called in country neighbourhoods, Paeonia officinalis. In 

 the Maryland garden where I grew up I remember that 

 there were many clumps of these massed against the ever- 



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