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HERBACEOUS GARDEN 
In the picture opposite this page a good 
use is made of larger plants for a foreground 
such as Iris germanica with its fine foliage on 
one side, while on the other is Megasea cordi- 
folia , the giant-leaved saxifrage, more iris, and 
double Narcissus poeticus with gardenia-like 
flowers. 
This border has a delightful background of 
apple trees and a grass walk, and is shown in 
another picture later on in the year with tall 
white daisies in flower. Other borders in the 
same garden are edged with box clipped square 
and solid, and behind this of course no very 
low-growing plants would succeed at all. 
Here we find rockets in quantity, purple, 
mauve, and white, day lilies, paeonies and 
phloxes, bergamot, lactuca with tall heads of 
grey-blue, and the dull-red eupatorium, — all 
seeming perfectly happy under the partial 
shade of gnarled grey apple trees. These 
shady walks extend through several gardens, 
and yet are always full of some interesting 
plant in flower. Here in the spring and 
summer are thickets of the lovely native 
anchusa, so little known and of such a lovely 
quality of blue, and numbers of aquilegias in 
all shades, with the quieter colourings of 
purple, blue, and white predominating. There 
