MAY 65 



Some of the clumps are of brilliant scarlet-crimson, rose 

 and vrhite, but out of the great choice of colours that 

 might be so named only those are chosen that make 

 just the colour-harmony that was intended. A large 

 grojjp, quite detached from this one, and more in the 

 shade of the copse, is of the best of the hlacs, purples, 

 and ■whites. When some clumps of young hollies 

 have grown, those two groups will not be seen at the 

 same time, except from a distance. The purple and 

 white group is at present rather the handsomest, from 

 the free-growing habit of the fine old kind Album elegans, 

 which forms towering masses at the back. A detail 

 of pictorial effect that was aimed at, and that has 

 come out well, was devised in the expectation that 

 the purple groups would look richer in the shade, and 

 the crimson ones in the sun. This arrangement has , 

 answered admirably. Before planting, the ground, of 

 the poorest quality possible, was deeply trenched, and 

 the Ehododendrons were planted in wide holes fiUed 

 with peat, and finished with a comfortable " mulch," or 

 surface - covering of farmyard manure. From this a 

 supply of grateful nutriment was gradually washed 

 in to the roots. This beneficial surface-dressing was 

 renewed every year for two years after planting, and 

 even longer in the case of the slower growing kinds. 

 No plant better repays care during its early years. 

 Broad grass paths leading from the lawn at several 

 points pass among the clumps, and are continued 

 through the upper parts of the copse, passing through 



