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ternata), loaded with its orange-like bloom. Buttresses 

 flank the doorway on this side, dying away into the 

 general thickness of the wall above the arch by a 

 kind of roofing of broad flat stones that lie back at 

 an easy pitch. In mossy hollows at their joints and 

 angles, some tufts of Thrift and of little Rock Pinks have 

 found a home, and show as tenderly-coloured tufts of 

 rather duU pink bloom. Above all is the same white 

 Clematis, some of its abundant growth having been 

 trained over the south side, so that this one plant plays 

 a somewhat important part in two garden-scenes. 



Through the gateway again, beyond the wall 

 northward and partly within its shade, is a portion 

 of ground devoted to Pseonies, in shape a long triangle, 

 whose proportion in length is about thrice its breadth 

 measured at the widest end. A low cross-wall, five 

 feet high, divides it nearly in half near the Guelder 

 Roses, and it is walled again on the other long side 

 of the triangle by a rough structure of stone and earth, 

 which, in compliment to its appearance, we call the 

 Old Wall, of which I shall have something to say 

 later. Thus the Pseonies are protected all round, 

 for they like a sheltered place, and the Moutans do 

 best with even a httle passing shade at some time 

 of the day. Moutan is the Chiaese name for Tree 

 Pseony. For an immense hardy flower of beautiful 

 colouring what can equal the salmon-rose Moutan 

 Reine Elizabeth ? Among the others that I have, 

 those that give me most pleasure are Baronne d'Al^s 



