Striking perfection, and looked their best in the fine setting of cut 
Autumn Laurels and unclipped Irish Yews wreathed with Trop@olum. 
Groups In the summer this border had been equally effective with tall 
Delphiniums and clumps of Lilies, while earlier still it was rich 
with tree Peonies. Another good October effect in this garden 
was a border of the tall cream Chrysanthemum Ra/ph Curtis 
grouped with the pink Massey, while below these grew pink 
Stocks and Mignonette, and in the wide herbaceous border 
sloping up to a stone wall stood clumps of the effective deep 
orange brown and pink Chrysanthemum Roddie Burns, grouped 
with Rudbeckias, Helianthemums and fine Michaelmas Daisies, 
A lovely bed of Monthly Roses, too, was still gay beneath the 
long green sprays of standard Wichurianas. 
At Dalhousie again I left a magnificent blaze of Tritomas, 
rich carpets of Violas, hedges of Fuschia gracilis, and many 
another beauty. The sketch was taken from one group out of 
many equally striking, which stood in the wide border under the 
great curving wall. The old red and yellow Torch Lily and 
Tritoma Leichtlini were all in big clumps, but the variety of 'Tri- 
toma, John Benary, seemed to me far the finest of them all, flam- 
ing red without a touch of yellow, and yet with a sort of bloom 
over its brilliancy. On one side grew a mass of white Japanese 
Anemones, and on the other Michaelmas Daisies, while the 
edges of the path were broken by dwarf creeping plants of 
every description. The tall Michaelmas Daisies were only 
just opening, but there were some fine dwarf ones—<Amellus, 
Distinction, Riversleigh, Roger Palmer, and Acris. At 
the edge of the path piercing the’ Saxifrages were Co/chicum, 
album plenum and speciosum album, and the mauve Crocus, 
spectosus Aitchisoni. 
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