190 IN A GLOUCESTERSHIRE GARDEN 



scarcely 1x5 too much left to themselves. Sonic require 

 walls, and so nnwt be trained, but they will grow 

 beautifully against a tree, or over buahc*. The /foai 

 Bmnonn U de.*eri)>ed an growing in India, with * iu 

 white flower* appearing on the largest trees, ami filling 

 the air with a powerful went for lung distance*,' and 

 Bit it in grown in perfection at Kew, rambling over 

 bushes ; and I once hod on my lawn a very large old 

 box -bush, of little lienuty either in aha}** or colour, but 

 allowed to remain lieeatmc from the centre grew an old 

 Ayrshire nwc, which in immmer clothed the Ux tree 

 with wonderful U'auty When the fine diel I cut the 

 U>x down. And even the finest hybrid r**o* rejoice in 

 thin treatment, and they are *o easily propagated that 

 there ia no difficulty in getting a g'**l stock of pUntu, 

 which may bv lreatel in many ditTerent wayn. I>ng 

 cultingH from thi* year's H|eiuMl WIN! pUntnl deep in 

 the ojH'n gn>und in November will often prmlucc plant* 

 that will flower the following year. 



I *aid that there wa-t no real KnglUh name fr the 

 nwe, and it i* remarkable that it i* the same in H.iAtern 

 countries they al*o have no native name f,r it. Sj 

 Sir Dietrich BrandU stated at the K>e C'onference : 



'The nM ha." n> tru* Sanicnt name. h;.h |..nv.| t> th< 

 fact that ro4i which foul l>e-n cultiratoi 1-y the } 

 for centuries previously werr first intnxiuced \>\ ti.cm 



