. Some English gardens;. y is just the timewhen the rest of the garden is looking tired and overworn—evidentlydying for the year. Some trees are already becoming bare of leaves ; thetall sunflowers look bedraggled ; Dahlias have been pinched by frost andbattered by autumn gales, and it is impossible to keep up any pretenceof well-being in the borders of other hardy flowers. Then with the eye full of the warm colouring of dying vegetationand the few remaining blooms of perennial Helianthus and half-hardymarigolds of the fading borders, to pass through some screeningevergreens to the fresh, clea
. Some English gardens;. y is just the timewhen the rest of the garden is looking tired and overworn—evidentlydying for the year. Some trees are already becoming bare of leaves ; thetall sunflowers look bedraggled ; Dahlias have been pinched by frost andbattered by autumn gales, and it is impossible to keep up any pretenceof well-being in the borders of other hardy flowers. Then with the eye full of the warm colouring of dying vegetationand the few remaining blooms of perennial Helianthus and half-hardymarigolds of the fading borders, to pass through some screeningevergreens to the fresh, clean, lively colouring of the lilac, purpleand white Daisies, is like a sudden change from decrepit age to the 123 brightness of youth, from the gloom of late autumn to the joy of fullspringtide. Another excellent way of growing the perennial Asters is amongshrubs, and preferably among Rhododendrons, whose rich green forms afine background for their tender grace, and whose stiff branches give themthe support they need. 24. THE ALCOVE, ARLEY from the picture in the possession ofMrs. Campbell ARLEY Throughout the length and breadth of England it would be hard to findborders of hardy flowers handsomer or in any way better done than thoseat Arley in Cheshire, The house, an old one, was much enlarged by thelate Mr. R. E. Egerton-Warburton, and the making of the gardens, nowcome to their young maturity, was the happy work of many years of hislife. Here we see the spirit of the old Italian gardening, in no wayslavishly imitated, but wholesomely assimilated and sanely interpreted tofit the needs of the best kind of English garden of the formal type, as toits general plan and structure. It is easy to see in the picture howhappily mated are formality and freedom ; the former in the gardenscomfortable walls of living greenery with their own appropriate orna-ments, and the latter in the grandly grown borders of hardy flowers. The subject of the picture is the main feature in the garden plan
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