THE SPRING GARDEN 29 



The corner marked Near Rock is also a slightly 

 raised bank. The dark dots are cob-nuts ; the dotted 

 line between is where there are garlands of Clematis 

 montana that swing on ropes between the nuts. The 

 garlands dip down and nearly meet the flowers of some 

 pale pink Tree Peonies. Open spaces above the gar- 

 lands and under the meeting branches of the nuts give 

 glimpses of distant points where some little scheme 

 has been devised to please the eye, such as the bit of 

 bank to the left of Seat A, where there are two little 

 fish-hke drifts of palest Aubrietia in a dense grey 

 setting of Cerastium. 



The point of the Near Rock next the path agrees 

 with the colouring opposite, but also has features of 

 its own ; a groundwork of grey Antennaria, the soft 

 lUac-pink of the good Aubrietia Moorheimi changing 

 to the left to the fuller pink of Phlox amcena, and above 

 to the type colour of Aubrietia and some of the strong 

 purples such as the variety Dr. Mules. To the left, 

 towards the oaks, the colouring is mostly purple, with 

 stout tufts of the Spring Bitter Vetch {Orobus vernus), 

 purple Wallflowers, and, under and behind the nuts, 

 purple Honesty. Thin streains of white Tulips inter- 

 mingle with other streams of pink Tulips that crown 

 the angle and flow down again to the main path between 

 ridges of double Arabis, white Iberis, and cloudy masses 

 of the pretty pale yellow Corydalis ochroleuca, which 

 spreads into a wide carpet under the Tree Peonies and 

 Clematis garlands. 



Further along, just clear of the nuts, are some patches 

 of Dielytra spectabilis, its graceful growth arching out 



