ONE-COLOUR GARDENS 14 1 
Such a little garden, a cool retreat, with the 
flowers not massed, but rising in groups from 
a setting of fern fronds, would, however small, 
be a welcome change on a hot summer day, 
especially if on the way to it one had passed 
beneath some vivid Crimson Rambler arch- 
way, or by a blazing group of Red-hot 
poker and montbretia, tiger lilies, or a bed of 
dimorphotheca, bright enough to dazzle one. 
Should there be anyone who, when at home 
in the evening, prefers to sit quietly out of 
doors rather than water or hoe the garden, 
then prepare for him some nook where 
such plants as Nicotiana affinis and Matthiola 
(night-scented stock) pour out the fragrance 
accumulated during the day, and withheld till 
night. Schizopetalon Walker i is another annual 
which only opens in the evening, and is 
delightfully scented. Evening primroses in 
different heights and in colours white and rose, 
as well as the better-known primrose, will add 
to the beauty of the scene, even if their scent 
is not so easily detected as in the others 
mentioned. 
In a very little garden, which is all the 
better for being cunningly planned, much can 
be done by the use of sweetbrier and other 
hedges to delude the eye and make it seem 
