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laid up the slope, and looked very soon as if it had 
been there always. 
I had Lilies of the Valley and Violets planted 
all along underneath the Roses, for there was a nar- 
row piece of earth not covered by the turf, as 
Roses, like other plants, do not do so well when 
anything grows up round them so very closely as 
turf does. 
Thus it is that for hedges, as well as for standard 
trees or for climbers planted to cover rustic trel- 
lises and arbours, it is always desirable to leave a 
little space before the grass closes in. Many 
flowers, such as Violets, or Mignonette, or some of 
the pretty Saxifrages, do not however grow close 
like grass, and matted, though they still are green 
enough to hide an ugly patch where the bare earth 
shows. Anagallis does well to sow round standard 
trees, but Forget-me-not is perhaps still prettier 
in a hedge and rather more in keeping. Sweet 
Woodruffe, too, grows delightfully under walls, and 
smells deliciously, like beds of new-mown hay. 
The shrubs generally will move now very well. 
Roses of course, and Ribes, and Lilacs, and Syrin- 
gas, and Honeysuckles, and Almond-trees, and 
Laurustinus and Box — people manage most years, 
I think, to be moving something. Then Lord 
