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HERBACEOUS GARDEN 
a black Darwin tulip of which a clump or two 
are always to be found in May ; all the others, 
though planted by hundreds in different years, 
have died out. Triteleia, a small and pretty 
white-flowered bulb, seems to be able to take 
care of itself ; but in this hot gravel soil no 
lily but candidum is ever permanent, though 
speciosum does well in another part of the garden. 
Neither alstroemeria nor the delightful red 
October flowering African bulb schizostylis 
succeed here for long. While in Ireland’s moist 
deep soil the latter flourishes, here plants even 
from the same source die out. Lilies of the 
valley do extremely well, perhaps because they 
are given a damp place at the foot of a north 
wall, and the large variety (Fortin’s Giant) is 
always particularly fine. 
This oblong garden filled with flowers may 
serve as a guide to those who have one of the 
same shape, possibly their only garden ; and if 
one or two of the flower borders were replaced 
by flowering shrubs, a very representative and 
certainly a very charming garden might be 
made even near or in a town. 
It needs a shallow marble basin and lead 
figure in the centre, or a sundial, or even a 
little brick-edged pond ; but at present all this 
is supplied only by that vivid imagination I 
