. Gardens for small country houses . Gardens, English. The Tj-eatment of Small Sites. 67 should be the rule, but for a further reason. Unlike our own species that of Hippophae rhamnoides seems to produce a majority of the male sex, and nine-tenths of them must be cut out, so that the yellow-berried Amazons of the tribe may have full scope to display their charms. Within these shelters, and even without them the Japanese euonymus, both green and golden, will flourish, while Griselinia littoralis! Escallonia macrantha and Olearia Haastii are only a few of the other evergreens that have a friendl
. Gardens for small country houses . Gardens, English. The Tj-eatment of Small Sites. 67 should be the rule, but for a further reason. Unlike our own species that of Hippophae rhamnoides seems to produce a majority of the male sex, and nine-tenths of them must be cut out, so that the yellow-berried Amazons of the tribe may have full scope to display their charms. Within these shelters, and even without them the Japanese euonymus, both green and golden, will flourish, while Griselinia littoralis! Escallonia macrantha and Olearia Haastii are only a few of the other evergreens that have a friendly feeling towards the sea. But the subjects must be educated to rough usages. Let them be pot grown or yearly transplanted stuff. Plant late in spring. Use the local reed-screens against wind and sun. Be liberal with the water-pot and the syringe when the air is hot and dry. Thus treated, tamarisks, gorses and brooms will be thoroughly at home. None of these will mind a shght. FIG. -PLAN FOR A SHELTERED SEASIDE GARDEN. sprinkle of salt or a moderate buffeting of wind, and, if rightly arranged, they will frame an enclosure as thoroughly protected as the sunk garden itself. That, with its artificial bulwarks all ready, will offer an immediate harbourage. The tree- surrounded oasis will be a future outlet for gardening energy. The early bulbs already spoken of—not tulips merely, but daffodils and hyacinths, chionodoxas and squills, anemones and crocuses—-should have an accompaniment of double arabis and varied aubrietias ; of wallflowers, Alpine species as well as garden hybrids ; of Blue-eyed Mary and rose-coloured Himalayan primrose. The last two will share the dampest spot with some of the mossy saxifrages, while the low dry wall, which sustains the wide walks that stretch out on a level from the loggia, will be the home of the encrusted section and of sedums and houseleeks. Of the last named there are. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images th
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