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anioides a pleasant little thing with lively carmine 

 blossoms. 



Saxiffaga sarmentosa prospers upon the rock-border 

 and spreads its threads and infant plants without 

 fear. It also blooms abundantly. A clubbed veronica 

 next appears and more campanulas ; then tropaeolum 

 polyphyllum scatters glaucous green foliage and yel- 

 low blossoms in sprays and showers, and calandrinia 

 umbellata makes a brilliant contrast. My wife says 

 that this calandrinia is magenta; but I deny it. My 

 idea of magenta is quite different. If I admitted the 

 charge, calandrinia would have to pack up and be off, 

 because I have faithfully promised that magenta shall 

 not be permitted anywhere in the garden. Statice 

 minuta a pretty atom comes next, with herniera 

 glabra, a yellow lithospermum whose name I forget, 

 phyteuma obiculare, a fine primula frondosa, sheltered 

 behind a stone, othonnopsis cheirifolia, convolvulus 

 althaeoides, and fuchsia procumbens. This last is a 

 particular favourite of mine, and his flowing habit 

 and wonderful scarlet fruit, as big as damsons, make 

 me forgive the flower. Note what quaint decoration 

 this plant makes in a vase. His bloom must be 

 confessed a thought loud. He has lavender-coloured 

 anthers, crimson stamens, a yellow body, and green 

 and purple petals. He comes from New Zealand, 

 which may excuse this aboriginal arrangement of 

 colour ; but the gardener who possesses him is proud 

 of him, while the gardener who does not, instantly 

 prepares to rectify the omission. Of other things 

 here I note thalictrum alpinus, erinus, spiraea fili- 



