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threatens . to look too dark and hard, I plant among 

 or just behind the plants that compose it, pink or 

 scarlet Ivy Geranium or trailing Nasturtium, accord- 

 ing to the colour demanded by the neighbouring group. 

 Heuchera Richardsoni is another good front-edge plant ; 

 and when we come to the blue and pale-yellow group 

 there is a planting of Funhia grandiflora, whose fresh- 

 looking pale -green leaves are delightful with the 

 brilUant light yellow of Ccdceolaria amplexicaulis, and 

 the farther-back planting of pale-blue Delphinium, 

 Mullein, and sulphur Sunflower ; while the same colour 

 of fohage is repeated in the fresh green of the Indian 

 Com. Small spaces occur here and there along the 

 extreme front edge, and here are planted little jewels 

 of colour, of blue Lobeha, or dwarf Nasturtium, or 

 anything of the colour that the place demands. 



The whole thing sounds much more elaborate than 

 it really is ; the trained eye sees what is wanted, and 

 the trained hand does it, both by an acquired instinct. 

 It is paiuting a picture with living plants. 



I much enjoy the pergola at the end of the sunny 

 path. It is pleasant while walking in full sunshine, 

 and when that sunny place feels just a little too hot, 

 to look into its cool depth, and to know that one has 

 only to go a few steps farther to be in shade, and to 

 enjoy that little air of wind that the moving summer 

 clouds say is not far off, and is only unfelt just hene 

 because it is stopped by the wall. It seems wonderfully 

 dark at first, this gallery of cool greenery, passing into 



