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with large purple or pink flowers in leafy racemes. It flowers 

 in summer and autumn. Some of the varieties of the common 

 " Ling^' Erica or Callima vulgaris, are pretty, and well worth a 

 little attention. They are now rather numerous, and vary much 

 in habit, some forming neat tufts or cushions, while others are 

 rather loose and straggling. 



Menziesia furnishes several brilliant and elegant species and 

 varieties. M. polifolia and its varieties, of which there are now 

 eight or nine, are a beautiful and sho^\y group of summer- 

 flowering dwarf shrubs. The dark purple, the white, named 

 globosa, and the Jiana varieties, are the best. The latter flowers 

 from June far into the autumn, and is quite a gem. The charm- 

 ing and rare little M. ccBriika is more difficult to grow and keep 

 than the foregoing sorts, but it is well worth a little trouble. It 

 succeeds best in sandy peat on rockwork, in a rather moist 

 situation. M. cmpetrifolia is a most beautiful dwarf species 

 from North America, with rosy-purple or pale-red flowers, 

 which must be cultivated in the same way as the last-named 

 species. 



Azalea procumbens, s}ti. Loiseleuria procum'bens, is rather 

 rare, but a beautiful and attractive little evergreen shrub, with 

 terminal clusters of pink or rose-coloured flowers. It should 

 have a moderately shady place on rockwork in sandy gritty 

 peat. 



Bryanthus erectus, s)ti. Menziesia erecta, with something 

 mongrel-like in its aspect, is a most beautiful thing, with heads 

 or clusters of pink flowers in the way of Kalmia ghiiica, from 

 which, as one parent, it is supposed to be derived, being re- 

 garded as a natural hybrid. It delights in a shady moist posi- 

 tion on rockwork. 



Epigsea repens is a dwarf, trailing, evergreen shrub, rarely 

 rising above 9 inches high, with white, in some individuals 

 pink, flowers in small clusters, very fragrant, delighting in 

 shady places, and excellent for introducing into woods where 

 the native vegetation is not of a rank character, and where the 

 soil is peaty, or composed of decayed leaves and sand. 



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This is a magnificent order of plants, of which, however, 

 there are yexy few herbaceous species, and only a few plants of 

 any kind capable of being associated with herbaceous plants ; 



