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their graceful shapes showing well against the 

 dark green. Eound the central fountain is a 

 3 -ft. wall, wide enough to have pink Bourbon 

 roses, in pots, standing upon it. Each of the 

 four smaller fountains forms the centre of a little 

 plot of ground. These plots are divided into 

 four beds. Each bed is large enough to have 

 several pink and white blossomed fruit trees 

 and some gooseberry bushes. Amongst them are 

 planted spring-flowering bulbs such as narcissus, 

 tulips, etc., for cutting. Other beds have smaller 

 fruit trees, or currant bushes and roses alternate. 

 The dark red-green foliage of the rose bushes con- 

 trasts with the fresh green of other plants. A few 

 plots are reserved for vegetables, but, as a rule, 

 these are close to a border of flowers; therefore, 

 the garden, although small, is ornamental as well 

 as useful. From below the windows of the house 

 comes a delicious scent of freesias, and as we look 

 more closely, we see orange-red tulips planted 

 amongst them, the deeper notes of orange in the 

 freesias corresponding with the colour of the tuUps. 



The plan, if carefully studied, will give a good 

 idea, therefore, of a successful combination of per- 

 manent herbaceous borders, improved, dressed up, 

 and heightened by the addition of ornamental 

 terra-cotta pot decoration. 



