SEPTEMBER 119 



important places Junipers ; then more Berberis, and 

 Ribes, and the common Barberry, and neat bushes of 

 Olearia Raastii. 



The -wall was built seven years ago, and is now 

 completely clothed. It gives me a garden on the top 

 and a garden on each side, and though its own actual 

 height is only 4^ feet, yet the bushes on the top make 

 it a sheltering hedge from seven to ten feet high. 

 One small length of three or four yards of the top 

 has been kept free of larger bushes, and is planted 

 on its northern edge with a very neat and pretty dwarf 

 kind of Lavender, while on the sunny side is a thriv- 

 ing patch of the hardy Cactus (Ojpuntia Baffinesguii). 

 Just here, in the narrow border at the foot of the wall, 

 is a group of the beautiful Crinum Powelli, while a 

 white Jasmine clothes the face of the wall right and 

 left, and rambles into the Barberry bushes just beyond. 

 It so happened that these things had been planted 

 close together because the conditions of the place were 

 likely to favour them, and not, as is my usual practice, 

 with any intentional idea of harmonious grouping. I 

 did not even remember that they all flower in July, 

 and at nearly the same time ; and one day seeing them 

 all in bloom together, I was delighted to see the success 

 of the chance arrangement, and how pretty it all was, 

 for I should never have thought of grouping together 

 pink and lavender, yellow and white. 



The i^orthern face of the wall, beginning at its 

 eastern end, is planted thus : For a length of ten or 



