it into producing the ferny foliage and charming blossoms 

 one expecfts of it in early Summer. 



^ Have you ever seen a pergola with its columns or supports 

 hidden under a mantle of English ivy (Hedera) so luxuriant 

 one could not see to what it clung, and over the beams across 

 the top a canopy of wistaria foliage and long, drooping, 

 graceful white flower panicles i> Pegged down English ivy 

 formed round frames for the base of the pergola supports, 

 with an outer edge of Euonymus variegatus trained and 

 pegged to a trim eight inch border that gave unusual con- 

 tract to the dark green English ivy. 



^ The pergola was a long one with an objecTt for its being, 

 for one walked through on soft, closely clipped grass around 

 which was a lily bed in which only white lilies bloomed. Here 

 also the Euonymous variegatus made an eight inch border 

 to the lily bed. In the center of the half circle was a fountain 

 with an oblong basin. Flashes of gold came through the quaint 

 little water-ca^le ne^led with delicate water plants under 

 whose leaves the goldfish played hide and seek. Madonna, 

 Auratum, Longiflorum, Regal and Alba Speciosum Lilies 

 bloomed from early Summer to mid-Autumn. On the other 

 side was a great bed of white and yellow lilies re^rainedly 

 planted with groups of the tallest white and yellow snap- 

 dragons, then masses of white lavatera. Next were the inter- 

 mediate snapdragons also white and yellow, then Alyssum 

 Benthami as individual plants with white and yellow Tom 

 Thumb snapdragons filling in all the foreground spaces. 

 What was the reason for having only white and yellow flowers 

 here perhaps you wonder. The English ivy, the white-flowered 

 wistaria and the Euonymus variegatus were all green and 

 white, so also was the lily bed; you realize that had the bed 



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