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border. A few belated Orange Lilies have their colour 

 nearly repeated by the Gazanias next to the path. 

 The strong colour is now carried on by Lychnis chalce- 

 donica, scarlet Salvia, Lychnis haageana (a fine plant 

 that is much neglected), and some of the dwarf Tropae- 

 olums of brightest scarlet. After this we gradually 

 return to the grey-blues, whites and pale yellows, 

 with another large patch of Eryngium oliverianum, 

 white Everlasting Pea, Calceolaria, and the splendid 

 leaf-mass of a wide and high plant of Euphorbia 

 Wul/enii, which, with the accompanjdng Yuccas, rises 

 to a height far above my head. Passing between a 

 clump of Yuccas on either side is the cross-walk 

 leading by an arched gateway through the wall. The 

 border beyond this is a shorter length, and has a whole 

 ground of grey foliage — Stachys, Santolina, Elymus, 

 Cineraria maritima, and Sea-kale. Then another 

 group of Rue, with grey-blue fohage and pale yellow 

 bloom, shows near the extreme end against the full 

 green of the young summer foliage of the Yew arbour 

 that comes at the end of the border. Again at this 

 end is the tall Campanula lactiflora. In the nearer 

 middle a large mass of purple Clematis is trained 

 over stiff, branching spray, and is beginning to show 

 its splendid colour, while behind, and looking their 

 best in the subdued light of the cloudy morning on 

 which these notes are written, are some plants of 

 Verbascum phlomoides, ten feet high, showing a great 

 cloud of pure pale yellow. They owe their vigour 

 to being self-sown seedlings, never transplanted. 

 Instead of having merely .a blooming spike, as is the 



