OF SHRUBS AND THEIR PLACING 11 
in nutkanus are rose-red, and in biflorus, pure white. 
But they are such prolific spreading pests that I have had 
to banish both—and banish them, too, not merely to 
the wilderness-garden, but out into the wild wood itself, 
to sink or swim as they choose. 
Last of the Brambles, though, comes a real jewel, in 
Rubus deliciosus. The epithet, so often, so direly mis- 
leading, is in this case justified up to the hilt. Rubus 
deliciosus is very beautiful indeed—a middle-sized, woody, 
deciduous shrub, producing long arching shoots, which, in 
June, are weighed down, all along their line, by enormous 
brilliant flowers of the purest white, like some strange 
variety of wild-rose, only more floriferous than the most 
generous of roses. Rubus deliciosus thrives perfectly in 
any fair soil and situation, and is a frail shrub of the 
greatest possible merit for the rock-garden, quite admis- 
sible to the background even where space is limited. 
Since we are now in the cousinhood of Rosa, we may 
as well continue with Spiraea and Potentilla. Most of 
the Spiraeas and all the herbaceous species must be dealt 
of with the greater and lesser bog-plants; but of the 
shrubby kinds, while most—Ariaefolia, mongolica, ar- 
guta, Margaritae, Douglasi, Aitchisoni—are magnificent 
shrubs far too large for all but the largest rock-gardens, 
Bumalda and crispifolia are small enough to be made 
welcome. Bumalda is the larger, and has heads of big 
pink flowers—ruby-red in the form Antony Waterer ; 
crispifolia is neater and smaller, with rusty-looking little 
flower-heads, and screwed-up curly dark leaves. They have 
a caterpillared look which repels me, and I find a repel- 
lent chalky tone too in the pinks of Bumalda and Antony 
Watercr (indeed in almost all the pink Spiraeas). So 
that, without enthusiasm, I pass on to a front-rank rock- 
garden treasure in the very rare and little-known Sporaca 
Hacquetti (very close, if not identical with S. decumbens) 
