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ix.] HA WTHORNSGLASTONBUR Y THORN 105 



In peat districts, or in gardens where peat can be 

 had at a reasonable cost, there are no shrubs so well 

 worth cultivating as the Hybrid Rhododendron. They 

 are now grown with almost endless shades of colouring, 

 and at a tithe of the price of former days ; but they 

 hate limestone like poison, and it is but labour in vain 

 to plant them in any soil but peaty turf. Similar treatment 

 may be given to the Ghent Azalea. The blooms come out 

 before the leaves, and they have every variety of tint 

 scarlet, pink, yellow, gold, and white. 



Lavender and Rosemary stand on the borderland 

 between shrubs and flowers ; the latter is redolent of pure 

 camphor. 



The Mexican Orange-flower (Choisya ternatd) is con- 

 spicuously beautiful in May and June. When grown in 

 a sheltered corner, with occasional protection of fir-boughs 

 in severe weather, it will make itself at home, and is very 

 easily propagated by layers or cuttings. 



The Desfontania are charming evergreens with leaves 

 resembling Holly. 



The Pittosphorum Mail is the New Zealand Evergreen 

 Oak with slender dark stems. 



The Glastonbury Thorn (Cratcegus Oxyacantha prcecox) 

 has a strange habit of precocious development of leaf 

 and bloom. Its name is suggested by an old legend 

 associated with the monks of Glastonbury. 



There would be much greater satisfaction found in 

 most gardens, if the rule were followed to attempt growing 

 only those shrubs that are likely to thrive. After a little 



