. Gardens for small country houses. Gardens. Woodgate, Four Oaks. II disturbed. It consisted of red sand and gravel with scarcely any admixture either of clay or lime, and over it, separated by a sharp line of demarcation, was a top layer of black vegetable leaf-mould six inches thick, the spoil of unnumbered autumns. In the mixture of this mould with the sand rhododendrons grow with extreme freedom owing to the absence of lime, as a noble bank of flowers at the north-east corner of the garden testifies. For many garden denizens this mixture proved too vigorously acid, wood and for about two y
. Gardens for small country houses. Gardens. Woodgate, Four Oaks. II disturbed. It consisted of red sand and gravel with scarcely any admixture either of clay or lime, and over it, separated by a sharp line of demarcation, was a top layer of black vegetable leaf-mould six inches thick, the spoil of unnumbered autumns. In the mixture of this mould with the sand rhododendrons grow with extreme freedom owing to the absence of lime, as a noble bank of flowers at the north-east corner of the garden testifies. For many garden denizens this mixture proved too vigorously acid, wood and for about two years it killed almost everything that w a s planted, but time and lime have made it amenable. Even now very deep planting is necessary, as the top soil dries off very rapidly in hot weather. Lilies of various kinds, es- pecially Lilium auratum, speciosum, monadelphum and the Canadian varieties, do very well, while every sort of campanula flourishes exceed- ingl}^ Those charming bulbs that we owe to South Africa, ixias and sparaxis, with the hardy calochorti from North America, stand the winter well by being covered with a little bracken, which preserves them sufficiently from frosts. The Californian poppywort, delicate alike in the texture of its flowers and its fragrance, adds its stately beauty and spreads freely underground,. Asclepias tuberosa (better called Butterflv Silkweed) point blank refuses to grow despite the sandy soil which text-books preach for it. Needless to say, before roses could be induced to make their home here, no little clay was imported, but, that done, they grow well, and delphiniums, in things, add the charms of their serried spikes in YEW HEDCE JAPANESE IRIS FIG. 12.—WOODGATE : GARDEN PLAN. common with most herbaceous blues from lavender to indigo. Though Mr. Bidlake is skilful more than common with his planting, the garden owes. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readabili
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