Colour in the flower garden . coating of Phlomis, Lavender, Rosemary,Cistus and Santolina; and at the end and angle wherethe wall is highest, a mass of Pyrus japonica, plantedboth above and below, already showing its rose-redbloom. At one point at the foot of the wall is astrong tuft of Iris stylosa whose first blooms appearedin November. This capital plant flowers bravely allthrough the winter in any intervals of open likes a sunny place against a wall in poor soil. Ifit is planted in better ground the leaves grow very talland it gives but little bloom. Now we pass among some shrub
Colour in the flower garden . coating of Phlomis, Lavender, Rosemary,Cistus and Santolina; and at the end and angle wherethe wall is highest, a mass of Pyrus japonica, plantedboth above and below, already showing its rose-redbloom. At one point at the foot of the wall is astrong tuft of Iris stylosa whose first blooms appearedin November. This capital plant flowers bravely allthrough the winter in any intervals of open likes a sunny place against a wall in poor soil. Ifit is planted in better ground the leaves grow very talland it gives but little bloom. Now we pass among some shrub-clumps, and at theend come upon a cheering sight; a tree of Magnoliaconspicua bearing hundreds of its great white cups offragrant bloom. Just before reaching it, and takingpart with it in the garden picture, are some tall bushesof Forsythia suspensa, tossing out many-feet-longbranches loaded with their burden of clear yellowflowers. They are ten to twelve feet high, and onelooks up at much of the bloom clear-cut against the. O
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