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these good summer flowers, a few kinds of harsh, 

 unpleasant reds and pinks, but these are easily avoided, 

 and the range of good colouring, from purest scarlet, 

 through softer tones, to tints of salmon and tender 

 warm pink, is now so great that there is no difficulty 

 in obtaining any combination or sequence that may be 

 desired, such as the very simple one that is shown in 

 the plan and will presently be described. 



The little garden is an odd-shaped piece of ground, 

 roughly triangular. The main clump is more than 

 thirty feet wide at one end, a width too great to treat 

 conveniently. It has therefore been arranged with a 

 kind of elevated backbone, a few feet wide, raised less 

 than two feet above the level, with dry walling on each 

 side to retain the earth. As it approaches the narrow 

 end of the triangle it swings round symmetrically on 

 each side forward to the path. All this raised part is 

 treated quite differently to the rest of the garden. 

 There is no attempt at brilliant colouring, but rather 

 to have important masses of fine form in a quiet range 

 of greyish tinting that shall serve as a suitable back- 

 ground to the brighter effects. The planting is mainly 

 of Yuccas of both large and small kinds and of two 

 kinds of Euphorbia ; the bold and striking E. Wulfenii 

 with its handsome form of leaf-mass and immense 

 bloom, and the smaller E. Characias. Where the 

 walls come near the path there are hanging sheets of 

 the bluish grey foliage of Othonnopsis cheirifolia. As 

 will be seen by the plan, the raised mass is fairly wide 

 at the south-western end. Spaces next the path 

 are filled with flowers of pink and purple colouring 



