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with very sparse return in flowers. Another plant 

 of the same species, set in an open border facing 

 south-west, has not grown nearly so fast, but is of 

 sturdier habit, and at the present moment (22nd 

 August) is closely set with tiny flower-buds on 

 long white peduncles, which will swell next April 

 into the crimson globular bells which are the glory 

 of this choice evergreen. 1 Canon Ellacombe's advice 

 was perfectly sound and applicable to the neigh- 

 bourhood of Bath, but had to be applied with a 

 caveat in grey Galloway. 



Again, Daphne Blaageana seeks all the shade it 

 can get in its native haunts in south-eastern Europe, 

 and may demand the same when grown on dry, 

 chalky soils in southern England ; but I have never 

 seen it so fine as under Mr. Moore's care in the Glas- 

 nevin Botanic Gardens, where it covers a large round 

 bed, in full sunshine, with its delectable ivory-white 

 blossoms. 



Similar examples might be multiplied ; the lesson 

 of them all being the same, namely, that the vaporous 

 atmosphere of Scotland, especially in the west, tempers 

 the sun-rays enough to enable most shade-loving 

 plants not only to endure them, but to benefit by 

 them. 



A wise discrimination in deciding what to grow 

 makes all the difference between struggling and 

 co-operating with nature. For what, after all, 



1 This never came to pass. The destructive frost of Eastertide, 1908, destroyed 

 the flower-buds of this and many another choice shrub. 



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