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.Most in evidence were Myrtle, Pistacia Lentiscus, Erica arborea, 
Viburnum, Tinus, Juniperus drupacea, Phillyrea media, Andrachne 
_Unedo, Cistuses, Lonicera Etrusca forming tangled masses, Spartiwm 
junceum, etc. Taller trees were chiefly Quercus Ilex, Cupressus 
sempervirens, Laurus nobilis, and the Aleppo Pine (Pinus halepensis). 
The gardens round the monastery (once fitted up as a chateau. 
and occupied by the: late Crown Prince of Austria) are now neg- 
lected, but interesting for their old world air and for the untrammelled 
grace and luxuriance of growth which only neglected gardens show. 
‘On the abandoned terraces at the outskirts the native vegetation is 
‘rapidly resuming its sway. The still cared for parts of the garden 
‘consist chiefly of walled in enclosures, over the walls of which 
‘yellow and white Banksian roses clamber in unrestrained profusion. 
_ The plants growing in the borders were in keeping with the place : 
-old oleanders and olives, Chamaerops humilis, hedges of rosemary 
and box, peonies, oranges, very old carobs (Ceratonia Siliqua), and 
such like. touch of modernity is given by an excellent specimen 
of Acacia cultriformis, and the WN. Asiatic flora was represented by 
numerous plants of Pittosporum Tobira, some 25 ft. high, and by 
-beautiful specimens of Spiraea cantoniensis fl. pl., whose long arching 
sprays were wreathed with pure white flowers. 
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tween the stones grow primulas, hepaticas, violas and other 
ines. In sheltered hollows far from the road woods of pine 
trees—probably some form of P. Laricio—are to be seen. 
Most interesting of all are the small patches of cultivated ground 
the Montenegrins have managed to obtain by clearing off the stones. 
These patches are usually in hollows into which a scanty humus has 
settled, and many of them are only 4 or 6 yards across—strange 
little oases in a wilderness of stone. Judging by the old haulm, 
potatoes appear to be a chief crop. I should imagine the country 
etween the Austrian frontier and the outskirts of Cettinje to be 
about as difficult to wrest a livelihood from as any in Europe. Onl 
here and there does a meagre tree or patch of scrub relieve the 
vast rugged expanse of rock. The poverty of the country is 
