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extremely bright and sunny. A few minutes suffice 

 to fill the eye with the yellow influence, and then we 

 pass to the Blue garden, where there is another delight- 

 ful shock of eye-pleasure. The brilliancy and purity 

 of colour are almost incredible. Surely no blue 

 flowers were ever so blue before ! That is the impres- 

 sion received. For one thing, all the blue flowers 

 used, with the exception of Eryngium and Clematis 

 davidiana, are quite pure blues ; these two are grey- 

 blues. There are no purple-blues, such as the bluest 

 of the Campanulas and the perennial Lupines ; they 

 would not be admissible. With the blues are a few 

 white and . palest yellow flowers ; the foam-white 

 Clematis recta, a delightful foil to Delphinium Bella- 

 donna ; white perennial Lupine with an almond-hke 

 softness of white ; Spircea Aruncus, another foam- 

 coloured flower. Then milk-white Tree Lupine, in 

 its carefully decreed place near the bluish foliage of 

 Rue and Yucca. Then there is the tender citron of 

 Lupine Somerset and the full canary of the tall yellow 

 Snapdragon, the diffused pale yellow of the soft plumy 

 Thalictrum and the strong canary of Lilium szovitzi- 

 anum, with white Everlasting Pea and white Hollyhock 

 at the back. White-striped Maize grows up to cover 

 the space left empty by the Delphiniums when their 

 bloom is over, and pots of Plumbago capense are 

 dropped in to fill empty spaces. One group of this 

 is trained over the bluish-leaved Clematis recta, which 

 goes out of flower with the third week of July. 



Yuccas, both of the large and small kinds, are also 

 used in the Blue garden, and white Lilies, candidum 



