5 COLOUR SCHEMES 



larch post planted with a free-growing Rose. These 



are not only to clothe their posts, but to grow into 



garlands swinging on slack chains from post to post. 



Beyond are Bamboos, and then an old hedge-bank 



with Scotch Firs, Oaks, Thorns, &c. . „The border 



, toward f West; CSC* P""-- 

 slopes upwards from the path, formmg a toank of 



gentle ascent. It was first planted with hardy Ferns 

 in bold drifts ; Male Fern for the most part, because 

 it is not only handsome but extremely persistent 

 the fronds remaining green into the winter. The Fern- 

 spaces are shown in the plan by diagonal hatching ; 

 between them come the bulbs, with a general edging 

 to the front of mossy Saxifrage. 



The colour scheme begins with the pink of Megasea 

 ligulata, and with the lower-toned pinks of Fumaria 

 bullosa and the Dog-tooth Violets {Erythroniuni). At 

 the back of these are Lent Hellebores of dull red colour- 

 ing, agreeing charmingly with the colour of the bulbs. 

 A few white Lent Hellebores are at the end ; they 

 have turned to greenish white by the time the rather; 

 late Scilla amana is in bloom. Then comes a brilliant 

 patch of pure blue with white — SciUa sibirica and 

 white Hyacinths, followed by the also pure blues of 

 SciUa bifolia and Chionodoxa and the later, more purple 

 blue of Grape Hyacinth. A long drift of white Crocus, 

 comes next, in beauty in the border's earliest days,^ 

 and later, the blue-white of Puschkinia ; then again 

 pure blue and white of Chionodoxa and white Hyacinth. 



Now the colours change to "white and yellow and 

 golden foliage, with the pretty little pale trumpet 

 Daffodil Consul Crawford, and beyond it the stronger 



