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'|low-growing Dictamnus Fraxinella (the white variety), 

 and Meadowsweet s white and pink, Foxgloves and 

 Canterbury Bells, and to the front some long-established 

 sheets of Iberis sempervirens that have grown right 

 on to the path. The large Yuccas, Y, glonosa and 

 Y. recurva, are throwing up their massive spikes, though 

 it will be July before they actually flower, and the 

 blooms on some bushes of the great Euphorbia Wulfenii, 

 although they were flowers of May and their almost 

 yellow colour is turning greener, are still conspicuous 

 and ornamental. Then the plants in the middle of 

 the wall, Choisya ternata and Clematis montana are still 

 full of white bloom, and theGuelder Rose is hanging 

 out its great white balls. I like to plant the Guelder 

 Rose and Clematis montana together. Nothing does 

 better on north or east walls, and it is pleasant to see 

 the way the Clematis flings its graceful garlands over 

 and through the stiff branches of the Viburnum. 



The more brilliant patches of colour in the big border 

 in June are of Oriental Poppies intergrouped with 

 Gypsophila, which will cover their space when they 

 have died down, and the earlier forms of Lilium croceum 

 of that dark orange colour that almost approaches 

 scarlet. 



During the first week of June any bare spaces of the 

 border are filled up with half-hardy annuals, and some 

 of what we are accustomed to call bedding-plants — such 

 as Geranium, Salvia, Calceolaria, Begonia, Gazania and 

 Verbena. The half-hardy annuals are African Mari- 

 gold, deep orange and pale sulphur, pure white single 

 Petunia, tall Ageratvmi, tall striped Maize, white 



