110 THE BEAUTEOUS VERONICA. 
scale. Their size varies much, according to the health of the plant and the climate in which they 
are produced. Those now represented, from a plant which lives out of doors without protection, at 
Abbotsbury, in Dorsetshire, with the Hon. W. F. Strangways, are by no means so large as we find 
upon some of the wild Van Diemen's Land specimens. 
The Mount Wellington plant, alluded to by Mr. Gunn in the above memorandum, we also 
possess from Mr. George Everett. It has narrower leaves, more strikingly. recurved than in 
Launceston specimens, and smaller flowers; but these are differences that may very well be caused 
by an alpine climate. 
Mr. Strangways' plants flower with him in June: when the bushes become objects of great 
beauty. It is not, however, to be expected that the species will be hardy in the midland counties. 
There it would probably live in a glass wall, a proper place to try it in: or even beneath a north 
wall out of the way of direct sunlight ; but this is to be determined experimental. Near London 
it is regarded as a greenhouse plant. 
The name 7. diosmefolia applied to this by Messrs. Knowles and Westcott, and still retained 
here and there in gardens, belongs to a totally different shrub, with small white flowers, from 
New Zealand. 
