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all the foreign glories of Azaleas of every hue, 

 while Camellias, waxen white and coral pink, 

 bloom generally from January on to the end of 

 May. 



When to these are added Rhododendrons and 

 Magnolias (one of the most interesting genera 

 grown here, and embracing practically the whole 

 of the species and varieties, including the 

 beautiful Pink Campbelli, a tree quite thirty feet 

 in height) imagination can hardly picture such a 

 Garden, much less pen describe it ! 



The avenue leading to this wonderful galaxy 

 of flowers is bordered with Ilex trees, strangely 

 un-English in character, and giving the keynote to 

 the Garden beyond. These Ilex trees proved so 

 difficult to grow that at last Pampas Grass was 

 planted to shelter the young trees from the 

 strong winds an arrangement which has been so 

 successful that the Ilex trees have grown to a 

 height of over twenty-five feet, and have almost 

 completely ousted the Pampas Grass. 



It is not difficult to realise the various phases 

 that this beautiful Garden must have passed 

 through, though there is no actual record of 

 them. The style of the Garden at the present 

 time is that of Irregular planting, "a.rAnglaise" a 

 most successful treatment in this case on account of 

 the glorious flowers that are for ever bursting their 

 buds in the sunshine. 



