VARIOUS GARDENS 



wall (farther left of picture) might have been more 

 beautifully laid, but from the photograph one 

 catches the precious quality of serenity in a gar- 

 den. The use of flowers is apparently somewhat 

 restrained. Eremuri, it will be noticed, are used 

 at regular intervals, and beside these there are 

 in this so-called English border iris, anchusa 

 Dropmore, habranthus, Nepeta Mussini, cerastium, 

 erigeron (a low, daisylike flower not often seen in 

 our own gardens), and dianthus. 



In the illustration showing the old stone seat — 

 a vision of beauty and a most lovely example for 

 the American gardener — the things which sur- 

 round the seat are for the most part plants with 

 scented foUage. Campanula Carpatica, however, 

 may be noticed here; also irises, hypericum, and 

 again erigeron, a variety by the name of Quaker- 

 ess. The masses of delicate aspiring flowers back 

 of the seat and below the Madonna liUes are, I 

 fancy, either anchusas or heucheras in bloom. 

 And, may I ask, was ever that flower beloved of 

 poets and writers of songs, the water-hly, as 

 perfectly set as in this place.'' Notice, too, the 

 small ferns so cunningly placed as to overhang 

 the pools. In this picture nothing is overdone — 

 the walls are not smothered under flowers nor is 



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