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such as Heliotrope, Ivy Geranium Mme. Crousse and 

 Verbena Miss Willmott, The star-shaped figures on 

 the plan show the Yuccas ; the larger ones are Y. 

 gloriosa and Y. recurva, and the smaller, garden 

 varieties of Y. filamentosa. There is always a good 

 proportion of these Yuccas in bloom during the late 

 summer, so that, standing at the north-west comer, 

 the stately flower spikes have a fine effect rising above 

 the colour masses of the borders on the lower level. 



These are in two main connected colour schemes — 

 in gradations of reds, and of whites and yellows re- 

 spectively. In the red portions the front is chiefly of 

 Geraniums ; Paul Crampel for the strongest red ; it is 

 a little softer and more pleasing to me than Raspail, 

 which we formerly used. My eye has had too much 

 tender tutoring to endure the popular Henry Jacoby — 

 a colour that, for all its violence, has a harsh dullness 

 that I find displeasing. Next to Paul Crampel we put 

 one of the softer reds such as Mrs. Bartleman, and this 

 leads to the fine salmon-coloured King of Denmark, 

 and then to the paler salmon pink of Mme. Lemoine, a 

 plant that has the additional advantage of a beautifully 

 zoned leaf. Some such arrangement is followed 

 throughout those portions of the garden where red 

 colouring prevails ; the plants for the back being three 

 varieties of red-bloomed Cannas, one of them with well- 

 coloured red foliage, and a larger growing kind with 

 great leaves so much like those of a Banana that, 

 having lost its original name, we know it as Canna Musa. 

 This has the leaves slightly red-tinted. With these 

 Cannas, arranged as shown in the plan, are thin drifts 



