late spring. Here too in Nature’s Rock garden, between the Flower 
mortarless bricks clasped together with golden brown lichen, rise Grouping 
in their season clumps of winter Marjoram, Red Valerian, Snap- 
dragons, Wall Rue, and black Spleenwort, and Hart’s Tongue 
ferns have also firmly established themselves. Art lends her aid 
with iron gates of classic design, here and there a leaden statue, 
or a marble vase, a dripping fountain, or a draw-well. On the 
way to the house another type of gardening prevails. Groups 
of flowering shrubs are arranged, chief of which are Deutzias, 
Weigelas, Lilacs, Double Genista, Choisya, Berberis, and 
Moutan Pzonies. Nor must we be surprised if in sheltered 
glades, exposed to the sun, Eucryphia pinnatifolia, Bamboo, 
Carpentaria, Cexsalpina, Caryopteris, and other tender subjects 
are found. There also is the home of Cyclamens, rewarding 
by a rich profusion of flowers the slight protection they receive 
from some majestic forest tree, at the base of which they cluster. 
Over the grass in spring-time Daffodils, swaying in the breeze, 
form a sea of unbroken bloom which breaks away into curves 
that sweep in and out among the trees, or lose themselves among 
the shrubs through which they thread their way to be massed 
in yet another vast group. 
In flower-gardening the present is a transition period, and 
in Scotland things have not yet righted themselves. But, on the 
whole, the old order is changing very rapidly. Greater taste 
is evident in the substitution of delicate colour-groups, in place 
of the vivid ribbon border. 
Roses are more used, either by themselves or grouped with 
herbaceous plants. Charming effects may be seen, such as the 
Blush China Rose surrounding the pink Spir@a palmata, and the 
more salmon pink Rose, Laurette Messimy,among the Phlox, Boule 
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