not only as a waterside plant, but where it also shows as a fine object 
from a wide grass path, which comes down to the water's edge in the 
inner garden. Then along the moat comes more yellow Mimulus 
grouped with the yellow Flag {Iris Pseudacorus) ; the yellow colouring 
repeated above and below; this is followed by a low, quiet planting of 
the lovely Water Forget-me-not (Myosotis palustris) ; then again some 
of the water-loving Ferns. Now the colour changes to the pale pink 
of Spiraa venusta and the noble foliage of Saxafraga peltata. Looking 
beyond these there is something of a brighter red, the Bee Balm 
(Monarda) , a North American plant that has long been a favorite in 
English gardens; then again the pink of Spiraa venusta. 
These few kinds of plants with the accompanying ferns and wild 
growths are all that is seen in a space of something like three hundred 
yards, and the same kind of rule is observed throughout the whole 
length of the moat, sometimes with different plants, and, after a good 
interval, with some of the same repeated. Halfway along on the south- 
eastern side, the garden wall again comes to the moat, rising straight 
out of it. In the middle space it swings back in a half circle with a 
corresponding form in the opposite bank, so forming a large, round 
pool, where again there will be water-lilies. As there is a raised ter- 
race above the wall, flanked by garden houses with bridges and the 
moat to right and left, the planting on the outer side of the moat is 
kept bold in character. Here again is the giant Spiraa Aruncus, and 
the great yellow composite Senecio CHvorum,la,Tge and stately both in 
leaf and bloom. Round the third angle the path no longer passes 
close to the moat but is forty feet away and the ground between is 
cool and moist. Here is a chance for the use of the giant Cow-parsnip 
that towers up twelve to fifteen feet and bears immense heads of 
bloom no less than five feet across. It is the newer kind, Heracleum 
Mantegazzianum, a finer thing in all ways than the older Heracleum 
giganteum. This is backed by groups of Water Elder, whose masses of 
berries are a wonderful sight in September and October; here also the 
groups of yellow Iris and Ferns are even bolder than before. This is 
aU best seen from the inner grounds. 
Whatever may be the size or calibre of the garden, it is the influence 
of the master mind that directs it, that gives it character and interest, 
and not character and interest only, but also life and charm. For a 
garden may have had great wealth expended on it and yet be without 
these essential qualities. Such examples exist, though happily they 
are rare; for where the driving power of strong will and riches are ex- 
pended on horticulture, there is generally the love of beautiful garden 
design and of the flowers themselves that tells throughout the work. 
Some of the greater gardens in the States testify to the admiration of 
