The Garden 
that We Made 
Cooler Colours come 
Farther Away. 
Farther away come 
the cooler colours. Here 
is the grevish-blue Nepeta 
mussini , which covers the 
Ga^den, fr show?ng R °he ground with its little tlowers all through the summer, and 
well in the centre of , . , T , • , t I r • 1 i 
the Paved square. which 1 most heartily recommend. Here is also the 
luxuriant happy-looking campanula (celtidifolia), the stately 
veronica (subsessilis), the perennial cornflower, the white 
gypsophila, also called the bridal veil ; here is Baptisia 
australis with blue butterfly-like blossoms, the old-fashioned 
white carnation Mrs. S inkins, blue and white violas, 
love-in-a-mist and white valerian. There are many 
others, though I must not weary you by enumerating 
them all. 
Behind the flower-beds the vegetables thrive splendidly 
those important and very useful plants that no one can 
do without. 
Here and there some 
bright blue flowers are 
put, in order to em- 
phasise the glow of this 
flaming mass, such as 
anchusa, veronica ( iongi - 
folia), delphinium, and 
sea holly ( Eryngium 
amethy stimuli). 
Breaking the Monotony of a 
Long Straight Path. 
A view of the Flower 
Walk as seen from the 
centre of the Rose 
Pergola. 
When the middle path 
was being made we thought 
that it looked too long and 
monotonous. We therefore 
made a pergola to break the 
monotony, where a wealth of 
roses climb and cluster, and 
where two white-enamelled 
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