24 Villa Gardens 



knowledge of their character, colour and season 

 of flowering. 



Of the ordinary evergreen shrubs with 

 inconspicuous flowers, but few should be 

 admitted, as their sombre green gives a 

 joyless funereal aspect to the garden, which 

 is scarcely redeemed by their evergreen char- 

 acter. 



Coarse-foliaged shrubs, like the laurels and 

 aucubas, I would entirely banish. 



It is in the small garden that so much can 

 be done with the hardy climbers. Their 

 rambling habit and rapid growth give us the 

 means of beautifying ugly corners, bare walls 

 and the like, whilst the more beautiful members 

 of this class are worthy a special support on 

 which they may display their flower and 

 foliage. 



An arch or pergola of light oak rods, placed 

 with an eye to its value in the general scheme 

 of the garden, may be quickly clothed with 

 Wistaria, Clematis, or one of the many beauti- 

 ful cluster Roses, and is always an object of 

 interest. 



