THE SPRING GARDEN 31 



length is a clump of Lilium giganteum and a biggish 

 grouping of Dielytra spectahilis. All along the outer 

 border there are patches and long straggling groups of 

 the -pretty dwarf Irises of the pumila, olbiensis and 

 chamcB-iris sections, with others of the same class of 

 stature and habit. Any bare spaces are filled with 

 Wallflowers and Honesty" in colours that accord with 

 the general arrangement. The narrow border has 

 mostly small shrubs, Berberis and so on, forming one 

 mass with the hedge to the left, which consists of a 

 double dry wall about four feet high, with earth between 

 and a thick growth on the top of Berberis, Rosa lucida 

 and Scotch Briers. Except the Berberis these make no 

 show of flower within the blooming time of the spring 

 garden, but the whole is excellent as a background. 



Red primroses are in the narrow border next to the 

 cross-wall ; the wall here is much lower than the longer 

 one on the right. The Primroses are grouped with 

 the reddish-leaved Heuchera Richardsoni, the two 

 together making a rich colour-harmony. Beyond them 

 are scarlet Tulips. The small shaded rounds in this 

 border and its continuation across the path into the 

 near end of the main border are stout larch posts 

 supporting a strong growth of Rose Mme. Alfred 

 Carriere and Clematis montana. These have grown 

 together into a solid continuously intermingling mass, 

 the path at C passing under a low arch of their united 

 branches. The high wall on the right is also covered 

 with flowering things of the early year, Morella Cherries, 

 Rubus deliciosus and Clematis montana, some of this 

 foaming over from the other side of the wall. 



