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tender green foliage, there may well be Uvularia 

 grandiflora and Epimediimt pinnafum. There is now 

 a dwarf form of the White Broom, a plant not only 

 less in height but of a more close and compact shape, 

 that is useful for grouping in front of the older, 

 taller one as well as for use in places where the original 

 plant is too large. 



A wonderful plant of May is the great Euphorbia 

 Widfenii. It adapts itself to many ways of use, for, 

 though the inmiense yellow-green heads of bloom are 

 at their best in May, they are stiU of pictorial value in 

 June and July, while the deep-toned, grey-blue foUage 

 is in full beauty throughout the greater part of the 

 year. It is valuable in boldly arranged flower borders, 

 and holds its own among shrubs of moderate size, but 

 I always think its best use would be in the boldest 

 kind of rock-work. 



One of my desires that can never be fulfilled is to 

 have a rocky hill-side in fuU sun, so steep as to be 

 almost precipitous, with walls of bare rock only broken 

 by ledges that can be planted. I would have great 

 groups of Yucca standing up against the sky and 

 others in the rock-face, and some bushes of this great 

 Euphorbia and only a few other plants, all of rather 

 large grey effect ; Phlomis, Lavender, Rosemary and 

 Cistus, with Oihonna hanging down in long sheets 

 over the bare face of the warm rock. It would be a 

 rock-garden on an immense scale, planted as Nature 

 plants, with not many different things at a time. 

 The restriction to a few kinds of plants would give 

 the impression of spontaneous growth ; of that large, 



