8^ COLOUR Schemes 



dragons white, lemon-white and yellow, and Primrose 

 African Marigold. It needs some care to obtain the 

 right colour of this Marigold. There are three distinct 

 colourings of this fine half-hardy annual — the well- 

 known deep orange, a middle yellow and the primrose. 

 Unless the primrose or sulphur colour is insisted on 

 seedsmen are apt to send the middle colour. I have 

 it alwa}^ from Messrs. Barr and Sons, who send the 

 right colour without fail. 



The little garden has a rather high wall to the south, 

 covered with climbing plants and shrubs treated as 

 wall plants. On the northern side an earth bank four 

 and a half feet high, dry-walled on both sides, has the 

 top planted with bushy things. At the western end a 

 fruiting Barberry is thickly overgrown with the large- 

 Eowered white Jasmine ; then come other shrubby 

 plants, with bush and- Rambling Roses and Scotch 

 Briars; the whole forming a flowery fence nearly as 

 high as the opposite wall and affording comforting 

 shelter. It is thickened by having a number of bushes 

 of Choisya in a narrow border on the south side that 

 have grown up to the height of the shrubs in the wall 

 top. 



