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of graceful pale-coloured Columbines with long spurs, 

 garden kinds that come easily from seed and that were 

 originally derived from some North American species. 

 They are pale yellow and warm white ; some have the 

 outer portion of the flower of a faint purple, much like 

 that of some of the patches in an old, much-washed, 

 cotton patchwork quilt. 



The dark trees on the right have rambling Roses 

 growing into them — Paul's Carmine Pillar and the 

 Himalayan R. Brunonis. The red Rose does not 

 flower so freely here as on a pillar in sunlight, but its 

 fewer stems clamber high into the Holly, and the bloom 

 shows in thin natural wreaths that are even more 

 pleasing to an artist's eye than the more ordered 

 abundance of the flowery post. At the foot of the 

 Hollies hardy Ferns grow luxuriantly in the constant 

 shade. A little later a few clumps of Lilies will spring 

 up from among them ; the lovely pink rubellum, the 

 fine yellow szovitzianum, and the buff testaceum. 



On the left-hand side, behind the sunny bank, a 

 Garland Rose comes through and tumbles out of a Yew, 

 and some sprays of an old bush of the single R. poly- 

 antha, that has spread to a circumference of one hundred 

 and fifty feet, have pushed their way through the Ilex. 



The Hollies and Ilexes all round are growing fast, 

 and before many years are over the httle garden will 

 become too shady for the well-being of the flowers tnat 

 now occupy it. It will then change its character 

 and become a Fern garden. 



All gardening involves constant change. It is even 

 more so in woodland. A young bit of wood such as 



