. The perfect garden, how to keep it beautiful and fruitful, with practical hints on eonomical management and the culture of all the principal flowers, fruits, and vegetables; . uya dolabrata, the yew, and varietiesof the Chinese juniper, make good foils. So, too, docertain non-conifers, such as berberis darwmii (alsoattractive from its flowers), the silver birch, Japanesemaples, Baileys dogwood {cornus baileyi), the golden-stemmed ash {fraxinus excelsior au7ea), the bamboos,box, cotoneasters, thorns, euonymuses, tree ivies, laurels,hollies, laurustinus, and veronicas. These plants havebeauty
. The perfect garden, how to keep it beautiful and fruitful, with practical hints on eonomical management and the culture of all the principal flowers, fruits, and vegetables; . uya dolabrata, the yew, and varietiesof the Chinese juniper, make good foils. So, too, docertain non-conifers, such as berberis darwmii (alsoattractive from its flowers), the silver birch, Japanesemaples, Baileys dogwood {cornus baileyi), the golden-stemmed ash {fraxinus excelsior au7ea), the bamboos,box, cotoneasters, thorns, euonymuses, tree ivies, laurels,hollies, laurustinus, and veronicas. These plants havebeauty of foliage, bark, stem, or leaf, and if the tree-likegrowers are grown in poor soil they will develop butslowly, and be long before attaining to undue pro-portions. By choosing certain of these shrubs for useas backgrounds, large borders can be filled at muchless cost than would be otherwise entailed, and so farfrom the general effect being marred, it is of the dwarf, slow-growing things may be broughtfairly forward to form bays, in which selected flowersare planted. A semi-circle of the common yew, en-closing an area planted with groups of tulips, phloxes,. Delphinium Beauty oe Langport, white, introduced byMessrs. Kelway cic Sons, and grown by Mr. W. C. Blakeway. COLOUR FOR ALL SEASONS 75 and Michaelmas daisies for Spring, Summer, and Autumnbloom is an illustration of the present point. Thestations for the flowers can be specially treated, bydeep digging and liberal manuring, to give that vigorousgrowth and abundant blooming which, in their case, isso desirable. Larch and oak pillars may also be introduced intomixed borders, and they will serve the double purposeof forming backgrounds, and of supporting roses, clema-tises, and other climbers, which will give grace andinformality. One plan is to form a group of threeunpeeled larch-poles, and plant within a vigorous,spreading rose, such as the Pink Rambler or F^licit6Perp6tue, and group tall blue perennial larkspu
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