The Canary single, brilliant scarlet, daisy-like flowers are very effective, and 

 Island Fern when a dozen or more are open at the same time upon a plant, 

 a brilliant display is afforded. 



The New Zealand Celmisias^ with white blossoms, are at 

 home in the rock garden, and the blue Chilian Crocus, 

 Tecophllea cyanocrocus^ may here and there be found spreading 

 its deep azure over the bed. 



Woodivardia radicans^ the great fern from the Canary 

 Isles, grows to perfection, and, at Trebah, fronds ten feet long 

 have been produced. 



Cornwall is particularly rich in rare and tender shrubs 

 and climbers, and, as the majority of these are to be seen 

 elsewhere in England only under glass protection, the gardens 

 are particularly interesting to those who are anxious to study 

 them growing in the open air. Space only permits of a few 

 of these being mentioned. Abelia floribunda (Mexico) a 

 beautiful evergreen shrub, bearing clusters of drooping pink 

 flowers about three inches in length. Generally grown against 

 a wall, but occasionally as a bush. Abutllon vitifolium 

 (Chili) evergreen, sometimes attaining a height of twenty feet, 

 bearing in June lavender blossoms three inches across : there 

 is also a white variety. Anopterus glandulosa (Tasmania) 

 evergreen, bearing long, erect racemes of white, cup-shaped 

 flowers. There is a splendid specimen, twelve feet in height, 

 at Tresco, Isles of Scilly. Bowkeria Gerardlana (South Africa) 

 a very rare evergreen, bearing panicles of white, calceolaria-like 

 flowers an inch across. Buddleia Colvilei (Sikkim) a fine 

 species, bearing flower-clusters, often a foot in length, of rose- 

 crimson flowers an inch across. Callistemon salignus (Australia) 

 evergreen, with crimson, bottle-brush flowers. There is a 



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