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perhaps more beautiful than anything. The per- 

 fume of its white flowers, though too strong for the 

 house, fills the air for yards round, and comes in 

 stray whiffs through the open window. This 

 magnolia will flourish abundantly in most places, 

 and if it does not, it is probably owing to its 

 roots requiring to be cabined, cribbed, and con- 

 fined. Other good shrubs for the outside of the 

 house are the ceanothus, the escallonia, and the 

 cydonia or Pyrns japonica, and these two last are 

 well worth growing as independent shrubs. The 

 Pyrus japonica, moreover, when trained as a 

 hedge, and breaking out all along its twisted 

 stems into knots of cherry-coloured blossom, is 

 extremely beautiful. 



And in the more favoured nooks of England 

 greenhouse shrubs, such as camellias and cytisus, 

 may be seen to flourish and flower abundantly in 

 the open air. There is a striking example of 

 this as far north as the Anglesea side of the 

 Menai Straits. Thirty years ago Sir John Hay 

 Williams determined to build a house and form 

 a garden on a steep field sloping down to the 



