MY HERBACEOUS GARDEN 207 
fruit. Unfortunately, an enterprising person 
connected with the farm discovered that they 
made capital wind-screens for early lambs, 
since when they have never been seen again, 
and are popularly supposed to have been eaten 
by hungry sheep. 
One year I had some 1 2-foot borders in 
which were many late-flowering perennials of 
the sunflower, late white daisy, and starwort 
families, filled up with hundreds of plants of 
Canterbury bells. 
The picture made by the varying shades of 
mauve, purple, pink, and white was set off by 
some very large bushes or pillars of an old- 
fashioned rose called Cheshunt hybrid, one 
that is seldom ordered now, as it only flowers 
once in the season. Its big, heavy heads, 
crimson when freshly opened, changing and 
paling to veritable vieux rose and lighter faded 
tints, were extraordinarily attractive with the 
Canterbury bells beneath, and when their 
beauty was over they were replaced by summer 
chrysanthemums, such as Perle Chatillonaise , 
creamy yellow ; Rabbie Burns, salmon and 
yellow ; Horace Martin, vivid yellow ; and 
Tonkin, mandarin yellow ; which range of 
colourings worked in very well with the 
heleniums and helianthus behind. 
