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Then I have yellow Paris Daisies, Salvia patens. 

 Heliotrope, Calceolaria amplexicaulis, Geraniums, scarlet 

 and salmon-coloured and iyy-leaved kinds, the best of 

 these being the pink Madame Crousse. 



The front edges of the border are also treated in 

 rather a large way. At the shadier end there is first 

 a long straggling bordering patch of Anemone syhestris. 

 When it is once above ground the foliage remains 

 good till autumn, while its soft white flower comes 

 right with the colom' of the flowers behind. Then 

 comes a long and large patch of the larger kind of 

 Megasea cordifolia, several yards in length, and running 

 back here and there among taller plants. I am never 

 tired of admiring the fine solid foliage of this family 

 of plants, remaining, as it does, in beauty both winter 

 and summer, and taking on a splendid winter colour- 

 ing of warm red bronze. It is true that the flowers of 

 the two best-known kinds, M. cordifolia and M. crassi- 

 folia, are coarse-looking blooms of a strong and rank 

 quality of pink colour, but the persistent beauty of 

 the leaves more than compensates ; and in the rather 

 tenderer lund, M. ligulata and its varieties, the colour 

 of the flower is delightful, of a delicate good pink, 

 with almost scarlet stalks. There is nothing flimsy or 

 temporary-looking about the Megaseas, but rather a sort 

 of grave and monumental look that specially fits them 

 for association with masonry, or for any place where a 

 solid-looking edging or full-stop is wanted. To go 

 back to those in the edge of the border : if the edging 



