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On the right, a few feet away, another plant of the 

 Japanese Maple may be found, and growing close to this is 

 a nice specimen of the Snowdrop tree Halesia tetraptera 

 underneath these there is a large plant of Saxifraga peltata. 

 This plant has very curious leaves, like a shallow funnel poised 

 on a stem. It is a native of California and throws up tall 

 bunches of pink flowers. The leaves change to red and orange 

 shades in the autumn, and the whole of it dies down to the 

 ground later. It likes a moist soil and must have a warm 

 position. On the other side of Rhododendron Falconerii is 

 a young tree of Paulownia imperialis, planted in 1 903 ; this 

 is a native of Japan, and bears large bunches of blue flowers, 

 It has not yet flowered here, but grows very freely. 



Some very large specimens of Bamboo are growing a 

 little further to the West. The large leaved variety is 

 Arundinaria Japonica, formerly called Bambusa metake; it is 

 a native of Japan and is the hardiest variety here, no cold 

 that we get in this country will kill it, but it must have 

 plenty of water in dry summers, especially when the plants 

 get large. The smaller leaved kind, of which there are two 

 plants near the others, is Arundinaria falcata; these are 14 feet 

 high, and 2 1 feet across, and were planted about 1 882 when 

 this part was added to the garden. This variety is more tender 

 than A. Japonica, and its leaves usually shrivel up very 

 much in cold weather, it may however be planted in any 

 sheltered position where its roots get plenty of moisture ; the 

 finest of the Bamboos grown at Belvoir is Bambusa viride 

 glaucescens, a nice plant of which is growing at the back of 

 the Camellias ; this was planted about 1 892 and is now 1 I 



