50 GARDENS OF ENGLAND 



without the association of rosemary and lavender 

 seems to lose something of its wonderful colouring. 

 A grey border is a border of quiet beauty. I shall 

 ever remember its winter effect in Miss Jekyll's 

 exquisite garden at Munstead Wood. Winter 

 there is as full of colour and of interest as in the 

 high summer days, or in autumn when the star- 

 worts are in bloom. The modest China rose 

 should hold a high place amongst the many roses 

 that the flower -lover considers essential to the 

 planting of the modern garden. One of the 

 soonest to bloom, and in full flower when other 

 early roses are only budding, it has a long season 

 of flowering, while its autumn bloom is also 

 abundant and prolonged. China roses, it must 

 be remembered, can be used in many ways — in 

 hedges, in beds, and with other plants or shrubs. 

 Some of the happiest associations are with the 

 tree-ivy, that blooms so freely in 'October, or 

 with rosemary, joining hands with this fragrant 

 shrub in the very first of the summer days when 

 it is stUl in bloom, and making an admirable 

 companion to its autumn clothing of deep-toned 

 grey foliage. 



But I wish to describe a small border in a 

 Buckinghamshire hilltop garden. It is in full 



