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part, are now natives of Australia, China, 

 Japan, Chili, and the mountains of Central 

 Asia one might write volumes. But who 

 can dispense with the best known among 

 them with Andromeda, Berberis, Kalmia, 

 Pyracanthus, Phillyrea, Pernettya, and dozens 

 more, large and small ? The gold and silver 

 Euonymus, which grows so freely and use- 

 fully by the sea, is of great use inland if 

 given a reasonable amount of shelter. I 

 know a rather plain house not far from here, 

 which is now quite a pleasant object in winter 

 a sheet of silver Euonymus veiling the crude 

 red brick on the south side up to the first- 

 floor windows. The beautiful Californian 

 Ceanothus, with pale-blue and mauve flowers, 

 and its many hybrid varieties, also does well 

 against walls. But far more beautiful did I 

 think it when, in the gloom of huge Douglas 

 and Sugar Pines, and among the awe-inspiring 

 red columns of Sequoia gigantea in the Mari- 

 posa Grove, we came upon the delicate blue 

 cloud of flowers covering big bushes of Cea- 

 nothus. Ah ! California in May. What a 



