GARDENS OF SPECIAL COLOURING in 



and the grey-white clouds of Gypsophila paniculata. 

 The pink flowers are SutTon's Godetia Double Rose, 

 sown in place early in May, the beautiful clear pink 

 Hollyhock Pink Beauty and the pale pink Double 

 Soapwort. Clematis and white Everlasting Pea are 

 planted so that they can be trained to cover the 

 Gypsophila when its bloom is done and the seed-pods 

 are turning brown. As soon as it loses its grey colour- 

 ing the flowering tops are cut off, and the Pea and 

 Clematis, already brought near, are trained over. 

 When the Gypsophila is making its strong growth in 

 May, the shoots are regulated and supported by some 

 stiff branching spray that is stuck among it. A little 

 later this is quite hidden, but it remains as a firm 

 substructure when the top of the Gypsophila is cut 

 back and the other plants are brought over. 



Eljrmus is the blue-green Lyme-grass, a garden form 

 of the handsome blue-^ved grass that grows on the 

 seaward edges of many of our sea-shore sandhills. The 

 Soapwort next to it is the double form of Saponaria 

 officinalis, found wild in many places. 



Of Ageratum two kinds are used — a brightly 

 coloured one of the dwarf kinds for places near the 

 front, where it tells as a close mass of colour, and the 

 tall A. mexicanum for filling up further back in the 

 border, where it shows as a diffuse purple cloud. 

 The Nepeta is the good garden Catmint {N. Mussini). 

 Its normal flowering-time is June, but it is cut half 

 back, removing the first bloom, by the middle of the 

 month, when it at once makes new flowering shoots. 



Now, after the grey plants, the Gold garden looks 



