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white, so that a certain variety in height and 
colour may be obtained. One such garden 
has been used as a foreground in quiet colour- 
ing for a particular view ; the ground beyond 
a sunk fence sloped away rather sharply, so 
that the masses of lavender, running up to the 
edge of the ha-ha, gave an effect which the 
green of the fields beyond could not. 
In the garden of the Hon. Mrs Edward 
Lyttelton at Overstrand is a pleasant parterre 
known as “ Lavender Square,” where great 
hedges of lavender, loving the light sandy soil, 
enclose a grass plot, the only relieving colour 
being given by a huge brown basket filled 
with pink ivy-geraniums in the centre. 
There is very little trouble in a lavender 
garden ; and, for anyone who is only in his 
garden in summer, it is an ideal plant to grow. 
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