THE JUNE GARDEN 45 



form the arbour is one end of the Hidden Garden. 

 Going along the path, past the projection on the block- 

 plan of the Hut, which represents the large ingle of the 

 studio, we come to the other bit of June garden behind 

 the little cottage. Here again, the space being over- 

 wide, it is divided in the middle by a double border of 

 Rosemary that is kept clipped and is not allowed to 

 rise high enough to prevent • access to the border on 

 each side. 



On the side next the Hut the flowers are mostly of 

 lilac and purple colouring with white. Pale lilac Irises, 

 including the fine I. Pallida dalmatica and the rosy- 

 lilac Vciriety, Queen of the May; perennial Lupines,, 

 white, bluish hlac and purple — one of a conspicuous 

 and rare deep red-purple of extreme richness without 

 the slightest taint of a rank quality— a colour I can 

 only call a strong wine-purple ; then a clump of the 

 feathery, ivory-white Spircea Aruncus, the large 

 Meadowsweet that is so fine by the side of alpine 

 torrents. There are also some flesh-pink Albiflora 

 Peonies and lower growths of Catmint, and of the 

 grand blue-purple Cranesbill, Geranium ibericum platy- 

 phyllum, with white and pale yellow Spanish Irises 

 in generous tufts springing up between. At the blunt 

 angle nearly opposite the dovecote is a pink cloud of 

 London Pride ; beyond it pale yellow Violas with more 

 white Spanish Iris, leading to a happy combination of 

 the blue Iris Cengialti and the bushy Aster Olearia 

 Gunni, smothered in its white starry bloom. An early 

 flowering Flag Iris, named Chamaeleon, nearly matches 

 the colour of /. Cengialti ; it is the bluest that I know 



