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many varieties of hybrid rhododendrons. Among 

 them are Blandyanum (rosy-crimson flowers), John 

 Waterer (dark crimson), Album Elegans (blush chang- 

 ing to white), Album Grandiflorum (blush), Caracta- 

 cus (rich purplish crimson), Minnie (blush white with 

 spots of chocolate in the throat), H. H. Hunnewell 

 (rich dark crimson), Charles Bagley (cherry red), 

 Charles Dickens (dark scarlet), Mrs. Milner (rich 

 crimson) and H. W. Sargent (crimson). 



By the third post you will see a tall, handsome mass 

 of European holly, with its dark green, glossy leaves 

 fairly blazing with white light in the fall sunshine, stiff 

 and set so bravely with spines. We all love it ! How 

 beautifully crimped and curled are its leaves! Note, 

 too, the whitish translucent margins of the leaves. Be- 

 side the gloss, the luster and fire of these leaves, the 

 leaves of our native holly are dull and dead. There is 

 another mass of this close by the fourth post. Near 

 this mass are handsome plantings of the Azalea amcena, 

 beautiful in April, with its lovely magenta-colored flow- 

 ers. Beside these is Azalea calendulacea, with burning, 

 fire-red, yellowish flowers, well named, the flaming 

 azalea. In between the fourth and the fifth posts you 

 will find English yew (close by the fourth post), and 

 a little off to northeast of it Japan holly. This has very 

 small, oval leaves, and at first glance you might think 

 it box. But look at its small leaves closely and you will 

 see the small tell-tale spines of the holly. Beside this, 

 off to its northeast, is Rhododendron maximum, and 

 then two more clumps of Japan holly. North of these 

 is a pretty mass of the holly-leaved barberry, with its 



