Untempered sun or overshadowing trees.”
“Lilac and lavender and hoar-frost white,
My border waves its colour to the sun.
Virginia Stocks grow low, but every one
Gives all her colour to the questing light.”
CHAPTER VIII
FOLIAGE PLANTS FOR TOWNS
“Oh, give me the sweet shady side of Pall Mall.”
“Sweet leaves to the air.”
We have said a good deal about Flowering Plants for town decoration; there are also non-flowering sets of plants to choose from, which are just as lovely and far more uncommon; I mean the grand array of foliage plants.