SUMMER IN THE GARDEN 157 



correspondent writes the tufted pansy is a power in 

 the garden. The older types of this flower were 

 never so welcome as the newer forms. There is a 

 quaint charm in the heartsease, the cottage flower 

 that seems to smile in the summer sunshine, but it 

 has not the same freedom as the tufted pansy. 



I have just finished reading Miss Jekyll's instruc- 

 tive and delightful recent book on Colour in the 

 Garden. Many happy hours has the writer spent 

 atMunstead Wood, gaining knowledge of contrasts 

 and associations of colour from a mistress of the 

 art of flower-gardening. This book, with its plans 

 and illustrations, embodies the thoughts of years of 

 garden practice, and I shall ever remember the big 

 flower border, "about two hundred feet long and 

 fourteen feet wide." This, when I first saw it, was 

 a revelation to me of the possibilities of producing 

 startling efiects in the hardy flower border. Miss 

 Jekyll mentions in her book that the border " is 

 sheltered from the north by a solid sandstone wall 

 about eleven feet high clothed for the most part 

 with evergreen shrubs — bay and laurustinus, 

 choisya, cistus and loquat. These show as a hand- 

 some background to the flowering plants. They 

 are in a three-foot-wide border at the foot of the 

 wall ; then there is a narrow alley, not seen from 



