OF SHRUBS AND THEIR PLACING 9 
that Romneya Coulteri is an open-ground shrub, that it 
becomes bored and lazy if grown under a wall, that only in 
an unprotected place, swept by every wind and frost that 
befalls, will the great Californian Poppy show the florifer- 
ousness of its true character. Add to this a dressing of 
lime rubble, and you will probably be picking blooms of 
Romneya from June to November. And those blooms 
are worth the winning—large and frail, built of the 
thinnest crumpled white silk, almost diaphanous, like the 
strange ghostly confections in a woman’s summer hat, 
with a central boss of golden stamens, and a warm little 
delicate fragrance like that of the Rose Maréchale Niel. 
In hopes of such a harvest my Romneyas are all to move 
out into the open, and abundance of their root-cuttings 
shall be struck, too, in spring, to repeat the experiment 
in every situation. 
Of small deciduous shrubs for the rock-garden there 
are many ; but few are fitted for a limited space. Cornus 
and Rubus each give minute species. Cornus swecica, our 
own rare native, I have never grown, nurseries always 
sending me Cornus canadensis instead. ‘This is a very 
attractive tiny thing, which I myself have collected abun- 
dantly in the Canadian Rockies. It grows about six 
inches high, and runs freely in any quiet peaty place on 
the rock-work. The whorled leaves are ovate, dark- 
green; the microscopic flowers look like the crowded 
stamens to an apparent flower made up of four big, snow- 
white bracts. Swecica is similar, but not nearly so 
attractive, I believe. The two Brambles, delightful for 
any peaty ledge or nook (the spiny, leafless-looking Rubus 
australis is not hardy),are Rubus arcticus and Rubus pedatus 
—the first an upright little shrub of six or eight inches, 
with flowers of bright carmine—which are brighter still in 
the fruit-bearing variety, arcticus fecundus; the second 
a very pretty, palmate-leaved trailer, with large white 
