100 GARDENS OF ENGLAND 



strong growth. If, before the plants come mto 

 flower, the canes are loosely tied together with 

 tarred twine, the supports will be unnoticeable. 



It is in the autimm that the wisdom of bold 

 grouping is most apparent, for in September we 

 enjoy the grand pictures of rich colouring that 

 are painted by carefiil groupings of Tiitoma and 

 scarlet Dahlias and Gladiolus, with the strong and 

 deep yellows of Rudbeckia and Helianthus and 

 African marigolds, while the same range of rich 

 strong colouring is repeated at their foot by masses 

 of yellow and orange and scarlet Nasturtimn. 

 Where such grouping as this, carefully designed 

 and carried out, plays its part for some central 

 third of the length of a 200-feet-long border, whose 

 breadth is 14 feet, here is space to show the merit 

 of the arrangement and the value that masses of 

 strong colour so arranged can acquire, especially 

 when the ends of the same border are treated to 

 a corresponding way in large groupings of cool 

 and pale colouring. 



Such a border is the delight in autumn of Miss 

 Jekyll's garden at Munstead. The colouring is 

 gorgeous, and in such a border as described, the 

 cool coloured ends have a groundwork of quiet, 

 low-toned bluish-green, as of Yucca and Iris; of 



