SCOTTISH GAEDENS 



side of a grove of Cordyline australis, some of them 

 15 feet high with the blossoming branches faded, is 

 a bank set with Romneya coulteri, a noble company. 

 It is a question whether this fine poppywort should 

 not be cut to the ground after flowering and allowed 

 to spring again. This is not done at Culzean, and the 

 flowers, though very numerous, are not individually 

 so large as those produced on young growths. At 

 one end of this bank is a mass of the Kerguelen 

 Island cabbage (Myosotidium nobile) which, though it 

 flowers and seeds abundantly, shows no symptom of 

 that failure which has overtaken it in so many 

 gardens. Rodgersia podophylla makes a luxuriant 

 undergrowth in the shrubberies, with enormous leaves 

 turning in August to bronze and copper tints. 



Among the young stock note may be made of 

 healthy plants of Leucodendron argenteum, Senecio 

 rotundifolius, Eleagnus marginata, Enkyanthus japonicus 

 with waxy flowers in early summer, and deep red 

 leaves in autumn, Hydrangea involucrata, of which 

 the half-expanded trusses resemble huge blue moss- 

 roses, Berberis congestiftora, with remarkably fine 

 foliage, Mitraria coccinea, and many other rare plants, 

 which Mr. Murray finds no difficulty in rearing in 

 the open till they are of a size to plant out in 

 the grounds. 



Passing now into the woodland beyond the 

 garden, where Miss Wilson has chosen her subject, 

 Lord Ailsa's full design becomes manifest, namely, to 

 devote these glades and glens and the margin of a 



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