White Broom is in flower from the middle of May
to the second week of June. There is a fine Flag Iris
of a rich purple colour called ** Purple King." It is
well to grow it just in front of some young bushes of
White Broom. Then, if one of the hybrid Irises of
pale lilac colour is there as well, and a bush of Rosa
aUaica, the colour-efEect will be surprisingly beautiful.
This Rose is the bolder-growing, Asiatic equivalent
of our Burnet Rose {R. spinosissima), with the same
lemon-white flowers. When any such group contain-
ing White Broom is plantied, it should be remembered
that the tendency of the Broom is to grow tall and
leggy. It bears pnming, but it is a good plan to
plant some extra ones behind the others. After a
couple of years, if the front plants have grown out of
boimds, the back ones can be bent down and fastened
to sticks, so that their heads come in the required
places. It is one of the many ways in which a pretty
garden picture may be maintained from year to year
by the exercise of a little thought and ingenuity. The
undergrowth of such a group may be of Solomon's
Seal at the back, and, if the bank or border is in sun,
of a lower groundwork of Iberis and Corydalis ochro^
leuca, or, if it is shaded, of Tiarella, Woodruff or
Anemone sylvesiris. With these, for the sake of their



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tender green foliage, there may well be Uvularia
grandiflora and Epimedium pinnatum.
