CHAPTER XI 
THE MASSING OF DISTINCT SPECIES 
Iris gardens — Michaelmas daisy gardens- — Paeony gardens 
-—Snapdragon gardens — Evening gardens — Lavender 
gardens. 
There is an increasing tendency toward the 
cultivation of flowers in separate gardens, 
where one species of plant in all its varieties 
may be grown. Where the space at command 
does not permit of a garden, then a border may 
be given up to it ; but a small enclosed space 
with hedges of clipped beech, or some ever- 
green, giving shelter and shade or sun as re- 
quired, has great advantages. There is no 
doubt that a large number of peonies or asters 
seen together has more effect than when they 
are dotted about among other plants in a 
mixed border. It has long since been dis- 
covered that roses look best when kept together 
in a rose garden or rosary ; and in the same 
way people are beginning to appreciate flowers, 
other than roses, massed together. There is 
