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usual way of those that are planted, these have abun- 

 dant side branches. They dislike bright sunshine, 

 only expanding fully in shade or when the day is 

 cloudy and inclined to be rainy. Close to them, rising 

 to the wall's whole eleven feet of height, is a Cistus 

 cyprius, bearing a quantity of large white bloom with 

 a deep red sp0t at the base of each petal. 



Though there is as yet but little bloom in this end 

 of the border, the picture is complete and satisfying. 

 Each one of the few flower-groups tells to the utmost, 

 while the intervening masses of leafage are in them- 

 selves beautiful and have the effect of being relatively 

 well disposed. There is also such rich promise of 

 flower beauty to come that the mind is filled with glad 

 anticipation, besides feeling content for the time being 

 with what it has before it. There is one item of 

 colouring that strikes the trained eye as specially 

 delightful. It is a bushy mass of Clematis recta, now 

 out of bloom. It occurs between the overhanging 

 purple Clematis and the nearer groups of Cineraria 

 maritima and Santolina. The leaves are much deeper 

 in tone than these and have a leaden sort of blueness, 

 but the colouring, both of the parts in light and even 

 more of the mysterious shadows, is in the highest 

 degree satisfactory and makes me long for the appre- 

 ciative presence of those few friends who are artists 

 both on canvas and in their gardens, and most of all 

 for that of one who is now dead* but to whom I 

 owe, with deepest thankfulness, a precious memory of 

 forty years of helpful and sjmipathetic guidance and 

 * The late H. B. Brabazon. 



