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And so the terraces, with their walls and steps and balustrades, 

 adapt themselves as pleasingly to the front of a palace as the 

 simple little porch of laurel and honeysuckle to the lowly cottage 

 door. 



This happy coalition between horticulture and architecture, 

 the garden and the home, will be gracefully promoted by adorning 

 the walls of the house with the flowers and foliage of climbing 

 plants, such as the Ampeilopsis Veitchii and the Clematis (I 

 name them together because they will grow in a very charming 

 conjunction), the Wistaria, the Passion Flower (Lady Con- 

 stance), the Ivies, Simmonds' Cotoneaster, Honeysuckles, not 

 omitting Aureo-Japonica, Bignonia, Escallonia, such Eoses as 

 the Banksian, the Ayrshire, and Sempervirens, Gloire de Dijon and 

 her daughter Madame Berard, Reved'Or, Reine Marie Henriette, 

 the hybrid Chinas and Bourbons, Blairii II., Charles Lawson, 

 Paul Perras, and, on a warm wall, Fortune's Yellow. I hardly 

 dare to include the Magnolia ; its loss is so deplorable, and yet 

 " 'tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved 

 at all." 



Between horticulture and agriculture the diversities may 

 gradually disappear by the planting of shrubberies and trees, 

 and by passing from the highly cultivated to " the wild " garden. 



And what shall the gardener put into his garden ? All things 

 pleasant to the eye and good for food for which there is room 

 and which will thrive in ifc. It must be such as Tennyson 

 describes : The daughters of t h e year, 



One after one, through that still garden passed, 

 Each, garlanded with her peculiar flower, 

 Danced into light, and died into the shade. 



The Christmas Rose (so precious under the handglass laden with 

 snow), the Aconite, the Snowdrops, of which Keble sang : 



They twinkle in the wintry morn, 



And cheer the ungenial day, 

 And tell us all will glisten soon 



As bright and green as they. 



And then the Crocus, like the cohorts of the Assyrians, all 

 gleaming in purple and gold ; the Scillas, including the exquisite 

 Chionodoxa Lucillias, the splendid scarlet Anemone ; and then 



The Daffodils begin to peer, 



And then comes in the sweet o' the year. 



