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a time, but that one, or those few things, carefully 

 placed so as to avoid fuss, and give pleasure to the eye 

 and ease to the mind. In many cases the aim has 

 been to show some delightful colour combination with- 

 out regard to the other considerations that go to the 

 making of a more ambitious picture. It may be a 

 group in a shrub border, or a combination of border 

 and climbing plants, or some carefully designed 

 company of plants in the rock garden. I have a little 

 rose that I call the Fairy Rose. It came to me from a 

 cottage garden, and I have never seen it elsewhere. It 

 grows about a foot high and has blush-pink flowers with 

 the colour deepening to the centre. In character the 

 flower is somewhere between the lovely Blush Boursault 

 at its best and the little De Meaux. It is an inch and 

 a half across and of beautiful form, especially in the 

 half-opened bud. Wishing to enjoy its beauty to the 

 utmost, and to bring it comfortably within sight, I 

 gave it a shelf in raised rock-work and brought near 

 and under it a clear pale lilac Viola and a good drift 

 of Achillea umbellata. It was worth doing. Another 

 combination that gives me much pleasure is that of 

 the pink Pompon Rose Mignonette with Catmint 

 and whitish foliage, such as Stachys or Artemisia 

 stelleriana. I may have mentioned this before, but 

 it is so pretty that it deserves repetition. 



In a shrubbery border the fine Spircaa Ar uncus is 

 beautiful with an interplanting of Thalictrum fur- 

 ■pureum. At the end of a long flower-clump there is 

 a yew hedge coming forward at right angles to the 

 length of the border. Behind the hedge is a stone wall 



