. Some English gardens;. ual flowerstight and round, are certainly not the best in the garden. The beautifuldouble garden Hollyhock has a wide outer frill like the corolla of thesingle flowers in the picture. Then the middle part, where the doublingcomes, should not be too double. The waved and crumpled inner petalsshould be loosely enough arranged for the light to get in and play about,so that in some of them it is reflected, and in some transmitted. It isonly in such flowers that one can see how rich and bright it can be inthe reds and roses, or how subtle and tender in the whites and sulphu
. Some English gardens;. ual flowerstight and round, are certainly not the best in the garden. The beautifuldouble garden Hollyhock has a wide outer frill like the corolla of thesingle flowers in the picture. Then the middle part, where the doublingcomes, should not be too double. The waved and crumpled inner petalsshould be loosely enough arranged for the light to get in and play about,so that in some of them it is reflected, and in some transmitted. It isonly in such flowers that one can see how rich and bright it can be inthe reds and roses, or how subtle and tender in the whites and sulphursand pale pinks. Other flowers beautiful in such gardens are the tallergrowing of the Columbines, the feathery herbaceous Spiraeas, such Aruncus, that displays its handsome leaves, and waves its creamyplumes, on the banks of Alpine torrents, and its brethren the lovely palepink venustUy the bright rosy palmata and the cream-white Ulmaria, the KELLIE CASTLE from the picture in the possession ofMr. Arthur H. Longman. \j .V €M ^ Six garden form of the wild Meadow-sweet of our damp the tall Bocconia, with its important bluish leaves and featheryflower-beads, which shows in the picture in brownish seed-pod ; and theThalictrums, pale yellow and purple, and Canterbury Bells, and Liliesyellow and white, and the tall broad-leaved Bell-tiowers. All these should be in these good gardens, besides the many kinds orScotch Briers, and big bushes of the old, almost forgotten gardenRoses of a hundred years ago, many of which are no longer to befound, except now and then in these old gardens of Scotland. Forhere some gardens seem to have escaped that murderously overwhelmingwave of fashion for tender bedding plants alone, that wrought such havocthroughout England during three decades of the last century. Here, too, are Roses trained in various pretty simple ways. Ourgarden Roses come from so many different wild plants, from all over thetemperate world, that there is
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