12 My New Zealand Garden 



separate long-tubed florets of shaded red. My 

 largest shrub, which is about 8 feet high, had 

 sixty blooms on it, lately. 



The Cape Waratah is more beautiful still ; the 

 flowers are smaller and more elegant, and of a 

 vivid scarlet. I brought one from Dunedin as 

 a large plant, but I don't think it ever recovered 

 the wrench, although it flowered for two consecu- 

 tive years. 



The name the Bottle-Brush, by which the 

 Callistemon, another Australian shrub, is commonly 

 called, helps to describe both the pink and the 

 red. I do not know what this shaped flower 

 should be properly termed, but it is a most 

 accurate pattern of a bottle-brush. The Japanese 

 Maples are indeed treasures, but a few with varie- 

 gated pink foliage seem obstinately determined to 

 stop growing. I used to pick off all the foliage 

 which was not correct ; but they resented this 

 treatment, so I now let them have their own way, 

 forsaking the colours in which I bought them. 

 I am, however, truly thankful for any foliage they 

 choose to give me, for it is quite superb alike on 

 the tree or in the room, lasting for an amazing 

 time in water. 



The wax-like pink flowers of Kalmia latifolia 

 make it an unmistakable gem, and it flourishes 

 in its soil of rotten turf. Andromeda Japonica 

 deserves all praise ; it grows to a large shrub, and, 



