SPRING AND AUTUMN 1B1 
shrubs and trees from north and east winds, a 
very successful garden might be planned. 
The herbaceous border proper is in too open 
a situation as a rule for this, and therefore a 
special nook must be selected. 
A background of mahonia {berberis) has 
fine, red-tinted leaves at this time of the year, 
and large clusters of pale yellow flower-heads ; 
and another shrub in full flower is Forsythia, 
with drooping, graceful stems, leafless at present, 
but with large, jasmine-like yellow flowers. 
Ribes, the flowering currant, in red and creamy 
pink, is also out in the shrubbery, and makes a 
pleasing picture with red and white daisies in 
the foreground. Two of the new miniature 
daisies, Dresden China, a crimson one, and Alice, 
a salmon pink, are flowering bravely. Prim- 
roses can be had in every shade. There are the 
dark blue Wilson primroses with their lighter 
varieties, and which look well with the light 
blue and white chionodoxas pushing through 
them ; there are purple and mauve and pink, and 
a red with a large yellow eye that looks scarlet 
in the distance. There is this year, in my 
garden, a red primrose with a white edge that 
is new to me ; and there are white primroses, 
double and single, and double mauves, and all 
the host of bunch primroses or polyanthus. 
