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grouped on grass with smaller ferns and grasses, produce a very 

 tropical effect. Green gardens composed of such things would 

 be a pleasant variation from the brighter flowering plants. In 

 the warmer districts of England this could be more easily 

 accomplished. Some of the hardier palms do well and appear 

 almost at home among the familiar English trees. 



" But fair the exiled palm tree grew 

 Midst foliage of no kindred hue ; 

 Through the laburnum's dropping gold 

 Rose the light shaft of orient mould, 

 And Europe's violets faintly sweet 

 Purpled the moss-beds at its feet. 



Strange looked it there ! the willow streamed 

 Where silvery waters near it gleamed ; 

 The lime-bough lured the honey bee 

 To murmur by the desert tree, 

 And showers of snowy roses made 

 A lustre in its fan-like shade." 



MRS. HEMANS. 



Parts of Cornwall are so mild that many things will do 

 well there which are considered as green-house plants in other 

 parts of England. There are in that county some gardens 

 that would astonish gardeners from less-favoured districts. 

 Pengerrick, Menabilly, Heligan, Tregothnan, and Carclew 

 are among the finest of these Cornish gardens. Camellias 

 grow into fine trees, * and Sikkim Rhododendrons flower 

 in the open-air, and Lapagerias will grow like ivy on 

 sheltered walls. At Carclew, Rhododendrons Thomsoni, 

 Hodgsoni, campylocarpum, argenteum, and many other tender 

 varieties were covered with bloom last spring. In that garden 

 there are many interesting plants thriving well, which are usually 

 kept in green-houses in England. Choisya ternata, Embothrium 

 coccineum, Phyllocladus rhomboidalis, Azara microphylla, are 

 among the number, and Benthamias, the seeds of which were 

 first sent home to England from Ceylon by Sir Anthony Buller, 

 flourish : some of the original ones still grow in the garden 

 at Heligan, where they were first planted. Still more favourable 



* Also in Hampshire and some other Southern and Western Counties. 



