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since it is equally so where the myrtle is hardy in England. In 

 Guernsey the three common species of myrtle seem to be equally 

 hardy ; though the^cross-leaved one is less ready in flowering than 

 the other two. The Fuchsia, like the Verbena triphylla, is 

 remarkable for the extraordinary vigour of its growth ; and if 

 there is no period of the year in which the China rose does not 

 flower, it is an example of that mildness in the winter, to which, 

 possibly, so much of the general success may be owing. Thus, 

 the Erica mediterranea becomes a large tree ; while the baccans, 

 and a few more, kept in our greenhouses, grow also to a great 

 size, and are the ornaments of the shrubbery. 



Among the tenderer Hypericums, the crispum,the ericaefolium, 

 and a broad-leaved one common in our greenhouses, whose specific 

 name has escaped me, are perfectly hardy ; as is the Veronica 

 decussata, the Thea viridis, the Correa speciosa and alba, and all 

 the Melaleucas which we cultivate. The Magnolias, including 

 the grandiflora, tetraptera, glauca(of course,) conspicua, purpurea, 

 and others, are here remarkable for the vigour of their growth and 

 the profusion of their flowers ; far excelling, at least in the more 

 refractory ones, the plants of our own shrubberies ; while the 

 Dahlia, now so common, is almost a nuisance, from the enormous 

 bulk and stature of the bushes which it forms. 



Thus the Camellia japonica does not only produce large shrubs 

 out of doors, attaining to the height of twenty feet, but is covered 

 with flowers, double as well as single, white and red, even to 

 contempt ; as the Leptospermums, including the lanigerum, 

 pubescens, myrtifolium, acutifolium, and another whose specific 

 name I have forgotten, are almost trees, in the shrubberies where 

 they are cultivated ; accompanied by every Diosma which we 

 possess, attaining a similarly powerful growth, compared to those 

 of the greenhouses. I ought formerly to have remarked that the 

 lemon grows together with the orange, protected only by a wall 

 from the violence of the west winds ; and when I named the 

 Verbena, I might have said that I had measured the stems twenty 

 inches and more in circumference, with an altitude and spread of 

 twenty feet and upwards. 



