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throughout the entire year. One species indeed, P. tomentosum, 
1 remarkable vigour that it even kills out the 
common bramble by suttocation ! 
Something must now be said of the Abbey Gardens as they 
are at the present day. Augustus Smith was quick to realise 
. that without shelter it was possible to grow very little of interest 
on a wind-swept spot like Tresco, and when he became Lord 
Proprietor in the year 1833 he started the planting up of shelter 
belts of Pinus insignis, P. Pinaster, Cupressus macrocarpa, an 
Quercus Ilex, which soon resulted in the formation of sheltered 
In addition to the shelter belts and plantations of wind-resisting. 
trees an extensive 
bryanthemum aurantiacum, M. Zeyheri, M. productum, and 
cushions of the beautiful soft pink M. crassum, with magnificent 
_ Of shrubs, some of the more noticeable at the time of my visit 
in April were Olearia Gunnii, and O. stellulata, Agonis flexuosa, 
Echium Callithyrsum. from the Canary Islands, Zsopogon lati- 
folius from Australia with its great head of dull pink flowers, 
ryandra formosa, bearing numerous golden ‘‘ cones ’’ of flowers, 
Halleria lucida some 30 ft. high covered with flowers and Brachy- 
glottis repanda with large trusses of white flowers. This forms. 
a large shrub, and though the leaves with their silvery lower 
surface are exposed to the full force of the wind they do not 
appear to suffer to any extent, and give a fine effect as a bold 
evergreen shrub. Other interesting trees that deserve notice are 
market. Nor must Olearia semidentata be forgotten, which with 
O. chathamica was just coming into blossom, vf 
Four species of Coprosma, C. lucida, C. Baueri, C. grandiflora’ 
bee trees. They were in 
full flower, and trees of both sexes of some of the species are to be 
_ found in the collection. C. Baueri sets seed regularly which 
germinate freely where they fall. ‘8 
