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of lawn, to keep the flowers in rather large masses of 

 colour. No one who has ever done it, or seen it done, 

 will go back to the old haphazard sprinkle of colour- 

 ing without any thought of arrangement, such as is 

 usually seen in a mixed border. There is a wall of 

 sandstone backing the border, also planted in relation 

 to the colour-massing in the front space. This gives 

 a quiet background of handsome foliage, with always 

 in the flower season some show of colour in one part 

 or another of its length. Just now the most conspi- 

 cuous of its clothing shrubs or of the somewhat tall 

 growing flowers at its foot are a fine variety of Bigrwnia 

 radicans, a hardy JFuehsia, the Claret Vine covering a 

 good space, with its red-bronze leaves and clusters of 

 blue-black grapes, the fine hybrid Crinums and Clero- 

 dendron fcetidum. 



Tea Roses have been unusually lavish of autumn 

 bloom, and some of the garden cHmbing Roses, hybrids 

 of China and Noisette, have been of great beauty, both 

 growing and as room decoration. Many of them flower 

 in bunches at the end of the shoots; whole branches, 

 cut nearly three feet long, make charming arrange- 

 ments in tall glasses or high vases of Oriental china. 

 Perhaps their great autumnal vigour is a reaction 

 from the check they received in the earlier part of the 

 year, when the bloom was almost a failure from the 

 long drought and the accomypaning attacks of bhght 

 and mildew. The great hips of the Japanese Eosa 

 fv^osa are in perfection ; they have every ornamental 



