1 8 TREES AND SHRUBS 



Garden shrubs in general can be grown, though 

 not so luxuriantly as on better soils, but some classes 

 are especially successful on poor land such as Genista 

 virgata. There are the Cistuses and Heaths, with 

 Lavender and Rosemary, in the drier parts, and in 

 the wetter places Kalmias, Andromedas, Rhododendrons, 

 Ledums, Pernettyas, and Vacciniums, with the Candle- 

 berry Gale and the native Bog Myrtle, also Broom and 

 Gorse, especially the Double Gorse. These, which 

 are usually classed as peat shrubs, will succeed in 

 any sandy soil with the addition of leaf-mould, and 

 are among the most interesting and beautiful of our 

 garden shrubs. 



Those who garden on poor and dry soils should 

 remember that though their ground has drawbacks 

 it has also some compensations. Such soils do not 

 dry in cracks and open fissures in hot weather, and 

 do not present a surface of soapy slides in wet ; 

 they can be worked at all times of the year, except 

 in hard frost ; they are easy to hoe and keep clean 

 of weeds and are pleasant and easy to work. They 

 correct the tendency of strong soils to the making 

 of a quantity of coarse rank growth, and they 

 encourage the production of a quantity of flowers 

 of good colour. 



