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hymenanthera, follows, and next a draba and ferns 

 appear, with azalea amoena, epimedium alpinum a 

 lovely thing in leaf and flower and primula denti- 

 culata. Shade gives these plants their opportunity. 

 Near at hand is the little rubus arcticus 1 a cheerful 

 mite and the tiniest of all his huge family. He 

 blooms freely, but never sets his delicious amber 

 berries with me. 



With the arctic bramble I hope to associate another 

 very small congener, rubus Chamaemorus, the cloud- 

 berry ; but as yet this has escaped me. Next appear 

 the lovely little erythraea pulchella and arctostaphylos 

 Uva-ursi, the bearberry. Weigelia, or diervilla nana, 

 grows here also with a native, thalictrum minus ; then 

 follow helianthus mollis and stenactis. Lastly buph- 

 thalmum salicifolium bows me out of my rock-border 

 with his solitary yellow flowers. 



Before proceeding to the bulbs, tubers, and corms 

 which are scattered here, you will need rest, and so 

 shall I. Of course, what I have showed you is very 

 irregular and casual. But the glory of this little rock- 

 border on a day in June ; the sprays and sheets of 

 colour ; the single dazzling splashes of flowers ; the 

 pillows of them ; the comet-like tails and trails of 

 them ; the explosions of pure splendour ; the rose 



1 Rubus Arcticus. I honour this atom specially because it brought 

 pleasure to Linnaeus. He both figured and described it with loving care 

 in his "Flora Lapponica" out of gratitude, as he himself declares, 

 because, upon his Lapland journeys, the wine made from these little 

 raspberries often brought him refreshment when thirsty and weary. In 

 Sweden a syrup, a jelly, and a beverage are all manufactured from rubus 

 arcticus, so that, as you go north, he waxes into a personality. 



