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HERBACEOUS GARDEN 
perennials such as coreopsis and mauve vetch 
(galega), both of them continuous bloomers. 
In America “ ghost gardens ” are rather the 
fashion. Here everything is dim and sub- 
dued. Under cool, creeper-clad pergolas or 
shady trees are arranged such misty effects as 
can be got by the use of large masses of 
Gypsophila paniculata , the great silver thistle, 
tall grey mulleins, and of the broad-growing 
silver salvia or sage as a flat carpet from which 
rise fragile white campanulas, white moon- 
daises, or white lilies of Bermuda. Near a 
grey stone seat may be found a large clump 
of white datura, with heavily scented trumpet 
flowers ; or, if no frost-proof shed can be found 
to store the datura, then a group of white 
Nicotiana sylvestris or Nicotiana affinis , which 
comes up year after year. Then there are 
white foxgloves, with white jasmine as a back- 
ground, on some old wall or pillar ; and Clematis 
Flammula (or, earlier in the season, montana) 
wreaths itself in and out of bay or box, and 
even tall junipers standing like sentinels do not 
escape, but are caught in its embrace. A 
small marble basin with water-lilies growing 
in it is sunk in the cool green turf, the water 
reflecting the early moonbeams ; for no one 
walks in the ghost garden except at evening. 
