SUMMER IN THE GARDEN 155 



of tufted pansies being planted between, and serves 

 the double purpose of a winter as well as a summer 

 bed. It is also one of which we should not soon 

 grow weary, for the winter heath is always charm- 

 ing, and tufted pansies offer many variations of 

 colour which might be renewed or changed at 

 pleasure. 



" We may think out for ourselves many com- 

 binations such as these, which would serve to make 

 our summer bedding more simple and easy to carry 

 out, but none the less effective." 



These thoughts remind me of a small garden — 

 less than three acres — which is flooded with flowers 

 from the days of the daffodil until the first buds 

 open on the pale lilac winter-flowering iris or Iris 

 stylosa in a warm corner where rosemary offers 

 this sweetest of winter blossom friendly shelter. 

 The mixed border has its usual occupants — big 

 groups of Delphinium belladonna, blue as the 

 summer sky ; drifts of white pinks and a variety 

 of carnations, the feathery gypsophila, alstroe- 

 merias, Michaelmas daisies, or starworts, as I prefer 

 to call them ; bell flowers, the big white Chrys- 

 anthemum maocimum. Coreopsis lanceolata grandi- 

 Hora, fraxinella, larkspurs, Echinops Ritro, the 

 glorious Eremuri, Erig&ron speciosus superbus. 



