FLOWEK-BORDER AND PERGOLA 205 



on tKe garden walls of Italian monasteries. Among 

 the Rosemaries I always like, if possible, to " tickle in " 

 a China Rose or two, the tender pink of the Rose seems 

 to go so well with the dark but dull-surfaced Rosemary. 

 Then stUl in the wall-border comes a long straggling 

 mass of that very pretty and interesting herbaceous 

 Clematis, C. davidiana. The colour of its flower 

 always delights me ; it is of an unusual kind of greyish- 

 blue, of very tender and lovely quality. It does well in 

 this warm border, growing about three feet high. Then 

 on the wall come Pyrus Maulei and Chimonanthus, 

 Claret- Vine, and the large-flowered Geanothus Gloire de 

 Versailles, hardy Fuchsia, and Magnolia soulangiana, 

 ending with a big bush of Choisya ternata, and rambling 

 above it a very fine kind of Bignonia grandijlora. 



Then comes the archway, flanked by thick buttresses. 

 A Choisya was planted just beyond each of these, but 

 it has grown wide and high, spreading across the face 

 of the buttress on each side, and considerably invaiding 

 the pathway. There is no better shrub here than this 

 delightful Mexican plant ; its long whippy roots ramble 

 through our light soil with every sign of enjoyment ; 

 it always looks clean and healthy and well dressed; and 

 as for its lovely and deliciously sweet flowers, we cut 

 them by the bushel, and almost by the faggot, and the 

 bushes scarcely look any the emptier. 



Beyond the archway comes the shorter length of 

 wall and border. For convenience I planted all 

 slightly tender things together on this bit of wall and 



