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better to block out this shorter piece of return wall on 

 the garden side with a hedge of Yews. They are now 

 nearly the height of the wall, and will be allowed to 

 grow a little higher, and will eventually be cut into an 

 arch over the arch in the wall. I wanted the sombre 

 duskiness of the Yews as a rich, quiet background for 

 the brightness of the flowers, though they are rather dis- 

 appointing in May and June, when their young shoots 

 are of a bright and hvely green. At the eastern end of 

 the border there is no return wall, but another plant- 

 ing of Yews equal to the depth of the border. Notched 

 into them is a stone seat about ten feet long ; as they 

 grow they will be clipped so as to make an arching 

 hood over the seat. 



The wall is covered with climbers, or with~"non- 

 climbing shrubs treated as wall-plants. They do not 

 all want the wall for warmth or protection, but are 

 there because I want them there ; because, thinking 

 over what things would look best and give me the 

 greatest pleasure, these came, among them. All the 

 same, the larger number of the plants on the wall do 

 want it, and would not do without it. At the western 

 end, the only part which is in shade for the greater 

 part of the day, is a Garrya elliptica. So many of my 

 garden friends Uke a quiet journey along the wall to 

 see what is there, that I propose to do the like by my 

 reader ; so first for the wall, and then for the border. 

 Beyond the Garrya, in the extreme angle, is a Clematis 

 moniana. When the Garrya is more grown there will 



