Colour in the flower garden . of Amelanchier, that charming littlewoodland flowering tree whose use in such ways isso much neglected. Close to the ground in the distancethe light comes with brilliant effect through the youngleaves of a wide-spread carpet of Lily of the Valley,whose clusters of sweet little white bells will be adelight to see a month hence. The Rhododendrons are carefully grouped forcolour—pink, white, rose and red of the best qualitiesare in the sunniest part, while, kept well apart fromthem, near the tall Chestnuts and rejoicing in theirpartial shade, are the purple colouring
Colour in the flower garden . of Amelanchier, that charming littlewoodland flowering tree whose use in such ways isso much neglected. Close to the ground in the distancethe light comes with brilliant effect through the youngleaves of a wide-spread carpet of Lily of the Valley,whose clusters of sweet little white bells will be adelight to see a month hence. The Rhododendrons are carefully grouped forcolour—pink, white, rose and red of the best qualitiesare in the sunniest part, while, kept well apart fromthem, near the tall Chestnuts and rejoicing in theirpartial shade, are the purple colourings, of as pureand cool a purple as may be found among carefullyselected ponticum seedlings and the few named kindsthat associate well with them. Some details of thisplanting were given at length in my former book Wood and Garden. Among the Rhododendrons, at points carefullydevised to be of good effect, either from the house orfrom various points of the lawn and grass paths, arestrong groups of Lilium auratum; they give a new. I Qoo q Si ?: ~>—v» -?•.. < . 7 - ^N/ - :**£* ?< k - **? y VI life-^ ? f » ,. < , -, • J. «* A 1 ^•S* V . J$S^€i ^T^^ -: ? - rS-il IS* ~ ; . afl < as ft!hi kJOh, bu THE WOOD 13 picture of flower-beauty in the late summer andautumn and till near the end of October. The dark,strong foliage makes the best possible setting for theLilies, and gives each group of them its fullest , narrower path, more to the east, is called theFern walk, because, besides the general growth ofBracken that clothes the whole of the wood, there aregroups of common hardy Ferns in easy patches,planted in such a way as to suggest that they grewthere naturally. The Male Fern, the beautiful DilatedShield Fern, and Polypody are native to the ground,and it was easy to place these, in some cases merelyadding to a naturally grown tuft, so that they lookquite at home. Lady Fern, Blechnum and Osmunda,and Oak and Beech Ferns have been added, theOsmu
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