42 ALPINES AND BOG-PLANTS 
sugar-bowl, if you want it to remain in health. Gazl- 
theria trichophylla is not so much remarkable for its 
small inflorescence, its furry-looking branches, as for the 
resulting fruits, which are ridiculously large, and of the 
most brilliant blue, having the colour and the bloom 
you see in those of Vitis vulpina. Indeed the fruits of the 
Gaultheria are almost as large as those of a grape. 
For the rock-garden, Mitraria, Fabiana, Fremontia, 
Carpentaria are rather luxuries than necessities ; so, too, 
are Choisya ternata, Perowskia, Parrotia, and many 
another illustrious shrub which it is one’s delight to prove 
hardy. ‘The same, too, must be said of the Olearias, 
gunniana, stellulata, macrodonta, nitida, and the ubiqui- 
tous Haasti. But, at the base of a rock-wall one may 
well grow Rosemary, and especially its delightful creep- 
ing, rock-hugging variety ; together with Ozothamnus 
rosmarinifolius, so like Rosemary in its aromatic leaves, so 
like Aster ereicoeides in its spikes of creamy blossom. 
Another plant I eye tenderly is /llicium religiosum, from 
Japan, an evergreen, with pale glossy green leaves, 
delightfully fragrant if you squeeze them, and_ then, 
nestling far down between the twigs, big pendulous 
blossoms of a ghostly diaphanous white, vaguely recalling 
those of Chimonanthus in design, and sweet with the 
tense, bitter sweetness of orange peel. This appears to 
be as hardy as it is rare and precious, though I have not 
sufficient experience yet to say the same of the Pitto- 
sporum, so glorious in great bushes of false orange-blossom 
along the Italian Riviera. The Abelias, chinensis and 
floribunda, are pretty, graceful rock-garden shrubs, sway- 
ing heads of pink trumpets, undeniably delicate, though, 
and untrustworthy. 
Cotoneaster and ELuonymus (though the mottled sea- 
side Euonymus is, | think, the plant I most dislike in the 
world—unless it be the Aspidistra) give us at least two 
