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carefully considered for their height, time of blooming 

 and colour value. In the yellow border is one patch 

 of clear, pale pure blue, the Dropmore Anchusa Opal, 

 grouped with pale yellows and white. 



In the purple border are some important front-edge 

 patches of the beautiful Catmint {Nepeia Mussini), a 

 plant that can hardly be over- pr aised . The illustra- 

 tion shows it in a part of a border-front that is to be 

 for August. For a good three weeks in June it makes 

 this border a pretty place, although the Catmint is 

 its only flower. But with the white-grey woolly 

 patches of Stachys and the half-grown bushes of 

 Gypsophila, and the Lavender and other plants of 

 greyish foliage, the picture is by no means incomplete. 

 Its flowery masses, seen against the warm yellow of 

 the sandy path, give the impression of remarkably 

 strong and yet delightfully soft colouring. The colour 

 itself is a midway purple, between light and dark, of 

 just the most pleasing quality. As soon as the best 

 of the bloom is done it is carefully cut over ; then the 

 lateral shoots just below the main flower-spike that 

 h£LS been taken out will gain strength and bloom again 

 at the border's best show-time in August. In another 

 double flower border that is mostly for the September- 

 blooming Michaelmas Daisies the Catmint is cut back 

 a little later. 



One of the joys of June is the beauty of the Scotch 

 Briars. On the south side of the house there are Figs 

 and Vines, Rosemary and China Roses, and then a 

 path, from which easy stone steps lead up to the strip of 



