GARDENS OF SPECIAL COLOURING loi 



Gold garden the hedge is double, for it must be of 

 gold Holly on one side and of Tamarisk on the other. 

 At the entrances and partition where the path passes, 

 the hedge shrubs are allowed to grow higher, and are 

 eventually trained to form arches over the path. ■ 



In the Gold and Green gardens the shrubs, which 

 form the chief part of the planting, are shown as they 

 will be after some years' growth. It is best to have 

 them so from the first. If, in order to fill the space* 

 at once, several are planted where one only should 

 eventually stand, the extra ones being removed later, 

 the one left probably does not stand quite right. I 

 strongly counsel the placing of them singly at first, 

 and that until they have grown, the space should be 

 filled with temporary plants. Of these, in the Gold 

 gardeii, the most useful will be (Enothera lamarckiana, 

 Verbascum olympicum and V. phlomoides, with more 

 Spanish Broom than the plan shows till the gold 

 HoUies are grown ; and yellow-flowered annuals, such 

 as the several kinds of Chrysanthemum coronarium, 

 both single and double, and Coreopsis Drummondi; 

 also a lEirger quantity of African Marigolds, .the pale 

 primrose and the lemon-coloured. The fine tall yellow 

 Snapdragons will also be invaluable. Flowers of a 

 deep orange colour, such as the orange African Marigold, 

 so excellent for their cfwn use, are here out of place, 

 only those of pale and middle yellow being suitable. 



In such a garden it will be best to have, next the 

 path, either a whole edging of dwarf, gold-variegated 

 Box-bushes about eighteen inches to two feet high, 

 or a mixed planting of these and small bushes of 



