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Ceraslium. These are so closely associated in our 

 minds with garden use that they have in a way lost 

 their suitability for places where we want to foster the 

 illusion of being among pictures of wild nature. 



As the dell becomes shallower, the less sloping 

 sides will want more careful planting. Here I would 

 have on the cool side the bushy Androinedas and 

 Vacciniums, remembering that some of the latter have 

 an autumn leaf- colouring of splendid scarlet, and that 

 therefore other bushes of like colouring would fittingly 

 accompany them ; so that here might come the hardy 

 Azaleas, thankful for a place where they have cool 

 peat at the root, and passing shade as of not far distant 

 Birches. 



The opposite side in full sun would be a happy 

 home for the Cistuses ; the larger pictorial effects 

 being made with bold plantings of C, ladaniferus and 

 C. laitrifolius, and nearer the path C. florentinns, and 

 the yellow-flowered Cistus formosios, which, though com- 

 monly called a Cistus, is botanically a Heliantliermtm. 

 Then the smaller yellow-flowered and more prostrate 

 H. lialimifolium and the lesser Rock-Roses. In the 

 most sun-baked spot I would have, on a rocky shelf 

 and hanging over it, a wide planting of Barbary Rag- 

 wort (Othonnopsis cJieirifolia), Lavender and Rosemary, 

 and big bushes of Jerusalem Sage (Fhlomis fritticosa) 

 and yellow Tree-Lupin, and the great Asphodel. It 

 would suit the character of most of these plants to 

 show between them some small stretches of bare sandy 



