leaves; a much better plant than the commoner form with magenta 
flowers. The colouring of the border now returns to orange, then 
passing again to yellow and on to the cooler colours. But at the eastern 
end we favour purple rather than blue. The wall here has a Wistaria, 
and in the back of the border there are some Clematis Jackmanni, to 
be trained forward into their proper place, and some of the September 
Asters; in the middle spaces there are Galega, Erigeron and Salvia 
virgata. One large drift is of the useful old garden plant Clary (Salvia 
Sclarea). As it comes freely from seed and we always have plants in 
reserve, we dig it right up when the best of its beauty is over and 
drop in some Hydrangas in pots in the same place. With the purple 
there are also white flowers — again the pure white Foxglove, the tall 
white Daisy (Pyrethrum uliginosum), the fine white garden form of 
Campanula macrantha and a good quantity of grey foUage, Rue, San- 
tolina, Artemisia and Cineraria maritima. At this end we have no 
yellow — only purple, pink and white. At both extreme ends the border 
is a little raised, and there we have groups of Yucca; the taUer Yucca 
gloriosa and Yucca recurva, and the shorter growing Yucca filamentosa; 
telling objects when seen from a distance or from either end. There 
are many other plants in the border, but only enough are mentioned 
to illustrate the method of colouring, and even those only as a sugges- 
tion, for you may have others that in your own gardens may do the 
same work better and be more easily available. 
As it is not possible to have any one border fuU of bloom for the 
whole summer, we plant so that the display begiiis only about the 
middle of June and is in some sort of beauty till the end of September. 
There is no attempt to have all high plants at the back of the 
border; in fact some of the taUest are pulled right down, as I shaU hope 
to describe in a later article. The effect is all the better if something 
tall, such as a group of Hollyhocks, shoots up Hke a mountain peak 
only here and there along the length, and it is all the better if some 
plants of fair height such as the Mulleins and Foxgloves advance into 
the middle of the border; there should be no monotony of evenly 
graded heights. I have found the disadvantage of such monotony 
when a special border for September was first made. It is mainly 
for the early Michaelmas Daisies, and though they vary in height 
from two and a half to seven feet, yet this was not enough, and the 
borders, though quite satisfactorily f uU of flower, had a certain dullness 
of form. In later years this was remedied by some tall DahUas and 
white Hollyhocks, and, best of all, by a little silvery Willow that soon 
went up ten feet and had planted just behind it a Clematis Flammula, 
which grows up through its branches and flings down a cataract of 
its pretty cream-white blooms among the purple Daisies. 
