Planning the Paths 
and the Flower-Bsds 
Starting to Plant the 
Hillside with Flowers. 
When the tree-felling- 
was completed, grass was 
sown on the hill, the edge 
being finished off with a 
low hedge of yew. This 
hedge has grown splen- 
didly, and looks like a low, 
thick, green wall. Anyone 
who has room for such a One of the terraces. 
,, ill • t i* i* showing the low Yew 
hedge should try it. When clipped twice a year, nothing Hedge, 
can be prettier as a hedge than such a low, close, ever- 
green wall. 
We put various kinds of perennial flowers in little beds 
here and there on the grassy slope — some in mixed groups, 
some by themselves. Even in our first year we had many 
kinds of flowers in bloom, such as the hardy scarlet fuchsia, 
montbretia, lychnis (that spreads so well), foxgloves, lilies, 
hypericum, the Oriental poppy with huge red blossoms, 
and others. 
The Matter 
of Grouping. 
By degrees, however, we came to the conclusion that 
the flowers appeared to much greater advantage when not 
mixed too much. We also found that it was best to have not 
more than two colours in the same group, and that the tall 
with el a S0 Yew M He e d'ge pure white lilies, white chrysanthemums of different kinds, 
and some red flowers such as 
fuchsia, montbretia, Oriental poppy, 
and sweet bergamot, looked exceed- 
ingly well together. One must 
needs find one’s way by degrees in 
matters of arrangement. 
In the immediate vicinity of 
the castle there had not been 
anything at all in the way of 
flowers, and we very soon found 
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