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Ferns and Lilies ; where it is giving place to garden 

 ground and there is a shrubby background, the smaller 

 Polygonums, such as P. compactum, are in place. 



The spaces more or less wide between large shrubs 

 and turf are full of opportunities for ingenious treat- 

 ment ; they are just the places most often neglected, 

 or at any rate not well enough considered. I have 

 always taken delight in working out satisfactory vfays 

 of treating them. It seems desirable to have, next the 

 grass, some_fdiage^^fjraJther^dfet^^ 

 size or f orm. For this use the Megaseas are invaluable, 

 the one most generally useful being the large variety 

 ot M. cordifolia. Funkias are also beautiful, but as 

 their leaves come late and go with the first frosts or 

 even earlier, whereas the Megaseas persist the whole 

 year round, the latter are the most generally desir- 

 able. These shrub-edge spaces occur for the most 

 part in bays, giving an inducement to invent a separate 

 treatment for each bay. 



The two illustrations with the front planting of 

 Funkia Sieboldi are two adjoining bays ; one showing 

 the charming shrubby Aster Olearia Gunni in the 

 middle of June, the other some groups of Lilium longi- 

 florum, planted in November of the year before, and 

 in bloom in early August. 



Sometimes a single plant of Gypsophila paniculata 

 will fill the whole of one of the recesses or bays between 

 the larger shrubs ; Hydrangea paniculata is another 

 good filling plant, and the hardy Fuchsias ; both of 

 these, though really woody shrubs, being cut down 

 every winter and treated as herbaceous plants, 



