OF SHRUBS AND THEIR PLACING 17, 
and, even at their fullest, are many shades darker and 
more brilliant than the pale blooms of canina. To my 
mind Rosa villosa, in point of colour, is nearer to alpina 
than to the Dog-rose; there are many shrubs, many 
roses in our gardens, of less merit and beauty than this 
neglected native. ‘There is also an attractive Albino 
form of villosa, but this cannot really challenge the 
beauty of the type. 
Passing now from the roses, no gardener fortunate 
enough to possess a cliff of his own, will ignore the 
great Wistaria of the Kast. With memories of Wistaria 
multyuga my heart is full. In the Garden of Asia 
stands recorded the beauty of the wild plant as I saw it 
among the thousand islets of Matsushima, trailing down 
those violet garlands over each fretted fantastic cliff of 
sandstone, blending its cool grey softness with the golden 
flare of Azalea mollis, while the still green water, 
swelling lazily against the rocks, sent back in shifting 
catches of colour the image of that riotous loveliness. 
Or Wistaria multijuga again, at Kameido — arcades 
and trellises of it everywhere, built out on long par- 
titioned galleries over the waters of the temple lake, 
while the worshippers, having each engaged his partition 
for the day, sit at peace beneath the four-foot plumes 
of pale purple, and adore the misty loveliness of the 
canopy overhead. Do you want four-foot plumes of 
Wistaria multijuga in England? Then give it all the 
sun you can and all the richest food. It is far from 
being a difficult plant to deal with, much less a hopeless 
one; and remember always that the ordinary Wistaria 
sinensis, even at her best, is but a poor pallid widow 
compared with the bridal opulence of Wistaria multi- 
juga. , 
Now that my heart is back in far Japan, it becomes 
impossible for me any longer to keep silence on the other 
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