WOOD AND SHRUBBERY EDGES 95 



When the garden comes on the sunny side of the 

 wood the planting would be quite different. Here is 

 the place for Cistuses ; for the bolder groups the best 

 are C. laurifolius and C. cyprius, backed by plantings 

 of Tamarisk, Arbutus and White Broom, with here and 

 there a free-growing Rose of the wilder sort, such as 

 the type folyantha and Brunonis. If the fir-boughs 

 come down within reach, the wUd Clematis (C. Vitalba) 

 can be led into them ; it will soon ramble up the tree, 

 filUng it with its pretty foliage and abundance of August 

 bloom. 



The Cistuses delight in a groundwork of Heath ; the 

 wild Calluna looks as well as any, but if cultivated 

 kinds are used they should be in good quantities of one 

 sort at a time, and never as hard edgings, but as free 

 carpeting masses. 



For the edges of other kinds of woodland the free 

 Roses are always beautiful ; where a Holly comes to 

 the front, a Rose such as Dundee Rambler or the Gar- 

 land wiU grow up it, supported by its outer branches 

 in the most delightful way. The wild Clematis is in 

 place here too, also the shade-loving plants already 

 named. In deciduous woodland there is probably 

 some undergrowth of Hazel, or of Bramble and wild 

 Honeysuckle. White Foxgloves should be planted 

 at the edge and a little way back. Daffodils for the 

 time when the leaves are not yet there, and Lily of the 

 Valley, whose charming bloom and brilliant foliage 

 come Avith the young leaves of May. 



Where the wood comes nearest the house with only 

 lawn between, it is well to have a grouping of hardy 



