A GARDEN NOTE-BOOK 



sions cannot be more than eighty by thirty feet. 

 This garden lies in the inner corner of a comer 

 lot. Around two of its sides, the long one to the 

 north and the short one to the east, is a screen of 

 closely planted Lombardy poplars, these backed 

 by the more definite boundary of a green-painted 

 wooden fence. The side to the south is outlined 

 by an excellently designed trellis, painted also a 

 dull green, in the centre of whose length is also a 

 gateway. The narrow end to the west is open, 

 except for the high shrubs on either side of a pas- 

 sage of turf. Lady Gay rambler roses are hung 

 lightly along the treillage, and at the moment at 

 which I write, the second week in September, a 

 charming array of flowers is in bloom. Here is 

 a group of zinnias of a remarkable tone of rich 

 buff, Isabellina by name; around these cluster 

 violet petunias, while in front are stocks, heuch- 

 era foliage and that of stachys, as well as lilac 

 alyssum; the pretty annual delphiniums are in 

 their second bloom, pink phloxes and the laven- 

 der salvia farinacea, as well as ageratum, give 

 added beauty, and against the tall poplar screen 

 Artemisia lactiflora spreads its lovely self like a 

 fountain in full play. To the left of the artemisias 

 are Buddleias, with their violet flowers, while the 



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