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instance Rubus nutkaensis, Cornus alba, Lonicera tatarica, several 
species of Crataegus (particularly C. sanguinea) and Cotoneaster, - 
Spiraea sorbifolia, Caragana frutescens &e. 
o great variety or brilliant effect can be expected from a. 
garden in the latitude of the Shetlands, where the snowdrop and 
the hazel do not begin to flower until towards the last week of April 
or even the beginning of May and frosts set in usually im the first 
week in October. Yet the aspect of the Garden and especially of 
the wooded portion with its rich young green is very pleasant 
indeed in the long days of the early summer and evidently much 
appreciated by the public which crowd there on Sundays. 
The number of perennials grown in the grounds was given in 
1912 at 4946 species and varieties, and those of the annuals at 
1576. 
nd they deserve, indeed, no less praise to-day. In the summer, 
when so many of the less delicate plants are transferred to the 
it 
the year, but the hot houses did not appear overcrowded, 
and the largest of them prod a 
the Fecilome alae to the plants which seemed to be perfectly 
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