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Anemone apennina which, introduced a good many years ago, 
has now spread itself amongst the trees and shrubs all over the 
grounds. 
ROSTREVOR. 
On the side of a hill sloping in the direction of Carlingford 
Lough is most beautifully situated the garden of Sir John Ross of 
Bladensburg. The garden is sheltered on the north by the Mourne 
Mountains, aid on the southern side of the Lough are other pictur- 
esque mountains full in view. As may be judged from the presence of 
many of the plants mentioned below, the garden nis es a site that 
encourages the growth of tender plants i in a way rarely experienced 
so far to the north. The hill on which it stands cee abruptly to 
the south and is itself considerably elevated above the level of the 
sea. ese various factors—the surrounding mountains, the near- 
ness of the sea, the elevation of the garden itself above its 
immediate surroundings, and its full exposure to the south—are all 
in favour of the well-being of tender plants. It is fortunate for 
Trish horticulture ba this spot is in the hands of so enthusiastic a 
collector and cultiva 
The publication ie a list by Sir John two or three years ago of 
the plants cultivated at Rostrevor prepared one for seeing 
a large number of ecm of shrubs and trees there. It is one 
Much of the hillside which he has ‘given up to exotic vegetation 
was originally covered with gaunt spreading old laurels. It is amongst. 
these he has planted his treasures, wisely using the laurels as wind- 
breaks and for shelter generally, only reducing or removing them 
as the other things grow, secure a firm foothold, and need more 
space. 
The shrubs most in prominence here are not those we see in the 
ordinary garden, but rather what we associate with the greenhouse. 
They do aot represent the floras of Northern Europe, N. America and 
parts of sia so much as those of Chile, Mexico, Australasia, 
S. Europe, S. Africa and the Himalaya. In a little walled in space 
there were, on the walls, Genista elegans 10 ft. high, Cytisus proliferus 
12 ft. high, Buddleia auriculata 16 ft. high, and Billardiera longi- 
he bearing the remnants of a large crop of its brilliant blue 
ruit, 
Conife ers,— Among conifers growing in the open — tote 
interesting and tender things as Zsuga Brunoniana ; 
Athrotazis—A. cupressoides (12 ft. high), A. laifolia ae the 
coarser-leaved A. selaginoides; Dacrydium Franklinii, Callitris 
oblonga bearing many cones, C. robusta, and their curious ally from 
_N. Africa, Tetraclinis articulata. The New Zealand “ Totara,” 
Podocarpus Totara, although only about 5 ft. high, was ale is 
