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of Gladiolus Brenchleyensis and others of near colouring, 

 among them the very fine and free Gladiolus Childsii 

 William Faulkner ; also the best of the scarlet and 

 orange-scarlet Dahlias, both of the larger-flowered and 

 pompon kinds, scarlet Pentstemon, Alonsoa, Lobelia 

 cardinalis, and, behind the Geraniums, Salvia Pride of 

 Zurich. In several places among the reds comes a 

 drift of a fine garden form of the native Sedum Tele- 

 phium. The quiet grey-green of the plant turns to a 

 subdued chocolate-red, as the large, flat flower-head is 

 developed. The introduction of this undergrowth of 

 quieter related colouring greatly enhances the quality 

 of the livelier reds and helps to put the whole thing 

 together. One break of a white Lily (L. longiflorum) 

 comes with fine effect among the reds. 



The yellow and white portions pass from the palest 

 of the Geraniums with a front planting of the useful, 

 but in the past much misused, Golden Feather Fever- 

 few, and a rather large quantity of a capital old garden 

 plant, that has of late been much neglected, the 

 variegated form of a native plant Mentha rotundifolia. 

 The Feverfew is allowed to flower, but the variegated 

 Mint has the flowering branches cut back so as to 

 keep it to a more convenient height. It is one of the 

 prettiest things as an underplanting to anything of 

 white or yellow colour, and specially charming among 

 the white Lilies {L. longiflorum) ; here and there it is 

 brightened with thin drifts of the pale canary-yellow 

 Calceolaria amplexicaulis. The plan shows the general 

 arrangement of the other white and yellow flowers ; 

 yellow-bloomed Cannas both tall and short. Snap- 



