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pansy, Maggie Mott, a continuous bloomer 
also, if the fading flowers are picked off. 
Between the lavender are occasional clumps 
of mauve iris, the tall and almond-scented 
Pallida, Caprice, and Mandraliscoe, while 
“ Mauve Queen ” and “Anton,” English and 
Spanish iris, in new self colours of mauve, 
come up here and there. The border at foot 
of the trellis has clumps of Salvia Sclarea , that 
grows 5 and 6 feet high, and is covered with 
masses of blossom and bracts of pale blue and 
mauve. Darwin tulips, Dream, Maes, Rev. 
Ewbank, Ergeste, and La Tristesse are 
showing all through these borders, and are 
in various shades of lilac, mauve, heliotrope, 
and purple. On the top of the low buttressed 
wall grows a thick fringe of the Nepeta mussini 
again, and below the steps, and in and out of 
the stones, is aubrietia “ Lavender,” a new 
variety. Planted at the foot of the sundial, 
and within the paved ring, are pansies, Maggie 
Mott again, and a dwarf funkia with lavender 
flowers and very ornamental foliage. 
Four small round beds cut in the turf 
contain each a plant of Buddleia Veitchii 
grandijlora . This needs to be cut down in 
spring, when each fresh shoot will carry half 
a dozen great plumes of light purple, made up 
