34 WOOD AND GARDEN 



mainly with dwarf shrubs. Here are Andromedas. 

 Pemettyas, Gaultherias, and Alpine Rhododendron, 

 and with them three favourites whose crushed leaves 

 give a grateful fragrance, Sweet Gale, Ledum, palustre, 

 and Rhododendron myrtifolivmi. The rock part is un- 

 obtrusive ; where the ground rises rather quickly are a 

 couple of ridges made of large, long lumps of sand- 

 stone, half buried, and so laid as to give a look of 

 natural stratification. Hardy Ferns are grateful for 

 the coolness of their northern flanks, and Cyclamens 

 are happy on the ledges. Beyond and above is the 

 copse, or thin wood of young silver Birch and Holly, 

 in summer clothed below with bracken, but now brist- 

 ling with the bluish spears of Daffodils and the buds 

 that will soon burst into bloom. The early Pyrenean 

 Daffodil is already out, gleaming through the low- 

 toned copse like lamps of pale yellow hght. Where 

 the rough path enters the birch copse is a cheerfully 

 twinkling throng of the Dwarf Daffodil {N. nanus), 

 looking quite at its best on its carpet of moss and fine 

 grass and dead leaves. The light wind gives it a 

 graceful, dancing movement, with an active spring 

 about the upper part of the stalk. Some of the heavier 

 trumpets not far off answer to the same wind with 

 only a ponderous, leaden sort of movement. 



Farther along the garden joins the wood by a 

 plantation of Rhododendrons and broad grassy paths, 

 and farther still by a thicket of the free-growing Roses, 

 some forming fountain-like clumps nine paces in dia- 



