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well, as was also the curious and very distinct P. Nageta from 
Japan. Juniperus Cedrus was succeeding well; this juniper, now 
nearly extinct on its native mountains in the Canary Islands, has 
latterly been brought into prominence by Dr. Perez of Orotava, 
Teneriffe, who in recent years has interested himself much in its 
preservation and distribution. The fine Chinese ewaby macro- 
lepis, whose tenderness in such places as Kew has been a great 
disappointment, appeared quite at home, as did also its New Zealand 
Abies religiosa, the rare Mexican silver fir, 
increases in height here at the rate of 2 ft. annually. Finally, may 
= —— ponies Fortunei, of which so magnificent an 
mple grows in the nursery of Messrs. Rovelli at Pallanza 
(io oli Bulletin 1912, p. 288); here at Rostrevor is one of the 
few plants I have seen thriving out of doors in the British Isles. 
Australian Shrubs—An interesting feature of the collections is 
the number of Australian shrubs they contain. We are accus- 
tomed to the presence of New Zealand plants in our gardens but 
Australian ones are rare. At Kew, only one shrub from that 
country is really hardy in the open—Podocarpus alpina, As ex- 
amples showing the richness and interesting nature of the open air 
collections at Rostrevor may be mentioned: Hibbertia Readit, 
Sollya heterophylla (self: sowing), Leucopogon Richei, Hakea ulicina, 
. pugioniformis, Acacia verticiilata, A. pycnantha (25 ft. high), 
Pomaderris apetala, Lomatia longifolia (4 ft.), Olearia Gunniana 
(7 ft. in height and diameter), Muehlenbeckia varians, whose thin 
The amber of plants grown is so large that space will not allow : 
of mention of more than a small proportion of them, but of especial 
interest were Anopteris Liege from Tasmania, a beautiful ever- 
green with racemes of bell-shaped flowers ; Libonia floribunda, well 
known in greenhouses for its orange-colo owers ; Feijoa 
Sellowiana ; Philesia buxifolia, a patch 4 ft. through ; Arbutus 
furiens, an interesting and very distinct Chilean species ; an inter- 
esting series of Cassinias ; Vaccinium Mortinia, that dainty little 
evergreen which grows on the Andes of Ecuador almost on the 
equator ; Mitraria coccinea, extraordinarily luxuriant ; Cyathodes 
pen a a curious and pretty Epacrid from Australasia ; Prin- 
hollies ; upatori um 3 ne 
There were fine ie also of things so typical of Irish gardens 
as T'ricuspidaria lanceolata, Embothrium coecineum, Drimys Winteri, 
30 ft. high, and ). aromatica with its handsome red tw wigs ; Olearia 
macrodonta 20 ft. through; Rhododendron ——— 10 ft. 
high ; Berberidopsis corallina in rampant growth. 
