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of the Flag Irises, and is planted between and around 

 the Olearias to form part of the colour-picture. 



Beyond this group, and only separated from it by 

 some pale yellow Irises, are two plants of the Dropmore 

 Anchusa Opal, marked A on the plan, of pure pale 

 blue, and another clump of Spircea Aruncus, marked 

 S, and one of a good pure white Lupine, with some 

 tall clear yellow Irises and white Foxgloves. Now 

 the colouring changes, passing through a group or 

 two of the rich half-tones of Irises of the squalens 

 section to the perennial Poppies ; P. rupifragum 

 nearest the path and, next to it, P. pilosum : both of 

 a rich apricot colour. Backing these is a group of 

 the larger hybrid that nearly always occurs in gardens 

 where there are both P. rUpi/ragum and P. orientale. 

 In appearance it is a small orientale with a strong look 

 of rupifragum about the foliage. As a garden plant 

 it has the advantages of being of £in intermediate size 

 and of having a long season of bloom, a quality no 

 doubt inherited from rupifragum, which will flower 

 more or less throughout the summer if the seed-pods 

 are removed. A plant of Oriental Poppy of the tone 

 of orange-scarlet that I know as red-lead colour, 

 and some deep orange Lilies complete this strongly 

 coloured group. 



In the north-western clump, where there are some 

 Thorn-trees and two Thuyas, the dominant feature 

 is the great bush of an old garden rambling Rose that 

 looks as if its parentage was somewhere between 

 sempervirens and arvensis. 1 can neither remember 

 how I came by it nor match it with any nursery kind, 



