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two wee seedlings I brought from Cannes a dozen years 
ago have so prospered without protection that now they 
are stately shrubs. Coronilla iberica is very different 
from this—a true rock-plant, neatly trailing, with glau- 
cous-green leaves, and bright, bright golden flowers. All 
these are sun-lovers, for warm slopes and ledges—where 
also our own native Hippocrepis comosa is quite as pretty 
as anything the heart could desire. 
Of the Hedysarums I have smooth things to say. They 
are willing and pretty and full of character (so many of 
these Butterflies lack individuality). Hedysarum obscurum 
is a dwarf plant, with silky clumps of leaves, and handsome 
heads of crimson ; sibiricwum and neglectum are similar, 
but, Iam told, and hope to see from my seedlings, even 
prettier. Hedysarum multijugum is gracious and elegant, 
a slight shrub with graceful foliage, and brilliant purplish- 
crimson spikes; and H. Mackensii is another shrubby 
species from North America, whose growth, as my seedlings 
show it, is very promising, and whose flowers are well 
spoken of. All the species are of the easiest possible 
culture anywhere, though one would not put them too 
near the smaller, choicer Alpines. 
Orobus, Vicia, and Lathyrus have made a sort of 
Witches’ Cauldron of horticultural confusion. |The 
Vetches may be left aside, though Vicia canescens (or 
something that has once borne that name) sounds very 
beautiful, if it were procurable. The glorious purple 
weed, too, Victa Cracca, is a fine thing to have established 
in a wild spare corner, and even more exquisite is the 
frail, pale climber Vicia sylvatica, with spires of softest 
china blue-and-white. This I once found rioting in a 
glen near Scarborough, and collected seed of, but, alas! 
with no result. As for the rest, I have many seedlings 
of new sorts, but, of course, am as yet unable to 
decide on them. I grow Lathyrus latifolius albus with 
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