50 COLOUR SCHEMES 



lawn some fifty feet wide that skirts the wood. To 

 right and left of the steps, for a length equal to that 

 of the house-front, is a hedge of these charming little 

 Roses. They are mostly double white, but some are 

 rosy and some yellow. When it is not in flower the 

 mass of small foliage is pleasant to see, and even in 

 'winter leaflessness the tangle of close-locked branches 

 has an appearance of warm brown comfort that makes 

 it good to have near a house. 



Jime is also the time of some of the best of the 

 climbing plants and slightly tender shrubs that we 

 have against walls and treat as climbers, such as 

 Solanum crispum and Abutilon vitifolivm and the 

 hardy Clematis montana ; but some notes on these 

 will be offered in a further chapter. 



One is always watching and trying for good com- 

 binations of colour that occur or that may be composed. 

 Besides such as are shown in the plans, the following 

 have been noted for June : 



In rock-work the tiny China Rose Pompon de Paris, 

 also the tender pink Fairy Rose, with pale lilac Tufted 

 Pansy and Achillea umhellata. 



The pretty pale pink dwarf Rose Mignonette, with 

 the lilac of Catmint {Nepeta Mussini) and the grey- 

 white foliage of Stachys and Cineraria mariiima. 



In a cool, retired place in a shrubbery margin, 

 away from other flowers, the misty red-grey-purple 

 of Thalictrum aquilegifolium purpureum with the warm 

 white foam-colour of Spircea Aruncus. 



On bold rock-work, a mass of a fine-coloured strain 

 of Valerian {Centranthus) with a deep scarlet-(?rimsoa 



