162 GARDENS OF ENGLAND 



an appearance of brilliancy that they would not 

 have had without the preparation provided by their 

 recently received complementary coloiu*." 



Several of the accompanying illustrations are 

 of borders in which the flowers of summer make 

 dashing groups of colour. In front of the 

 "Herbaceous Borders, Dingley Park," the lark- 

 spurs or perennial delphiniums are strikingly 

 handsome, and at the "Entrance to the Gardens 

 (Ayscough)," one is greeted with a narrow border 

 of the white Japanese anemone. I often think 

 how much beauty is lost to the garden by not 

 filling in odd corners with flowers or some little 

 border such as is represented in the illustration. 

 Here is shown the anemone in full flower, just 

 the right position for the plant, which gains by the 

 foliage-covered wall in the background. " The Lily 

 Walk, Dingley Park," shows the most beautiful 

 of all lilies, Lilium candidum, or the Madonna lily. 

 There are two forms of this, one with narrow, 

 and the other with broad segments, composing a 

 flower of fine proportion and strength. Always ask 

 for this when ordering bulbs of it. There is no 

 more exquisite family of bulbous plants than the 

 lily, and I fervently hope that in the near future 

 the disease will be less troublesome. It seems to 



