Western quarters are elsewhere in the Pyrenees or along the shores of the 

 Flora. Mediterranean, are to be found in the West and South- West 

 The Atlantic f Ireland, will not, I think, be news to most people. That 

 type severa l f these should have entirely declined to establish them- 

 selves in England, despite the fact that Cornwall at all events 

 might be expected to offer an irresistible halting-place, is also 

 known, and is a fact not without interest and piquancy. Of this 

 particular group of plants the Arbutus of Kerry (Arbutus unedo) 

 stands in point of size easily first, and as regards other qualifica- 

 tions certainly not last. Next to it come, perhaps, the three 

 important Heaths Erica mediterranca, Erica Mackaii, and 

 Dabeocia polifolia. Three Ferns Trichomanes radicans, Adi- 

 antum Capillus-Veneris, and Asplenium lanceolatum. One 

 Orchis Habenaria intacta. Two Saxifrages the absurdly- 

 named "London Pride" (Saxifraga umbrosa), and its nearest of 

 kin, the kidney-leaved Saxifrage. If to these ten are added the 

 beautiful, large-flowered Pinguicula of South Kerry and Cork 

 (Pinguicula grandiflora) our list, for gardening purposes, will 

 I think, be about complete. 



It is when we turn from a mere enumeration of these 

 to the question of their cultivation that trouble begins ! 

 True, several the three Heaths, for instance are readily 

 obtainable from your nurseryman for a consideration. To 

 transplant them out of their own homes, even if it be to a garden 

 at no great distance, is, however, for some reason a curiously 

 difficult feat. Thus the St Dabeoc Heath (Dabeocia polifolia) 

 may literally be called the Heather of Connemara, the high- 

 lying bogs and mountain slopes of which are often completely 

 covered by it for a distance of miles. Ask it to allow itself to 

 be moved to a garden, no matter how near at hand, and its long,. 

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