. The happy garden . the border alongthe wall, where it tumbles over the stones of thecourtyard. Canterbury bells are in the big borders,but larkspurs are allowed among the other annuals. Each aspect has its own individuality. At theorchard end the borders terminate in lavenderhedges. Pillar roses—Rubens, Euphrosyne, Leuch-stern and a white single rose—mark it off from, andintroduce it to, the lawn, where, at a little distance,there is a great bush—four or five yards through—of the single white polyanthus rose, the beloved ofMiss Jekyll, whose books are a necessary part ofevery gardeners devel
. The happy garden . the border alongthe wall, where it tumbles over the stones of thecourtyard. Canterbury bells are in the big borders,but larkspurs are allowed among the other annuals. Each aspect has its own individuality. At theorchard end the borders terminate in lavenderhedges. Pillar roses—Rubens, Euphrosyne, Leuch-stern and a white single rose—mark it off from, andintroduce it to, the lawn, where, at a little distance,there is a great bush—four or five yards through—of the single white polyanthus rose, the beloved ofMiss Jekyll, whose books are a necessary part ofevery gardeners development. As Browning saidof his wife—a remark which has always curbed myadmiration for the poet—? To love her is a liberaleducation . . To introduce Miss Jekylls booksto a house is almost enough to make a gardengrow about it. To introduce them to a contentedgardenless woman is a social danger. ... Inpractice there is only one reason to quarrel withMiss Jekyll. She is merciless. With seedlings she THE ANNUAL BORDER IN SEPTEMBER: TOBACCO , AND AUTUMN LILIES Annuals is ruthless, for she is a tidy housewife—or garden-wife—who will tolerate nothing, be it never sobeautiful, out of its place. She has no more feel-ing for a seedling Shirley poppy than for thewickedest of weeds (which the French call so aptlymauvaises herbes). Now, in my light, sandy soil,everything delights to seed itself, and often whensome flower has ensconced itself in some entirelyinappropriate place, I have not the heart to pluckit out. It may be weakness : but I confess it with-out shame. I should never dream, for instance, ofuprooting anywhere Miss Jekylls triumph, thenigella or love-in-a-mist, the lovely blue flowernestling in its frail foliage, almost like a patch ofsky reflected in the water of a green stagnant pond :surely one of the tenderest and most intimateflowers of all : and its sweet name is not half sweetenough. Sometimes too great a liberty is taken—poppiesespec
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