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do better. A great cerinthe, or honeywort, springs up 

 annually here too. I cannot remember whence it 

 came, but I think, dear Mrs. Kent, that I have to 

 thank you for this very handsome plant. All who 

 see it cry out for a seedling, and such is the cerinthe's 

 generosity that all can be supplied. 



Certain evening primroses next roam about and fall 

 over a shelf of rock. The beautiful lemon cenothera 

 macrocarpa mingles withO.taraxacifolia, the dandelion- 

 leaved species from Chili, and both do well enough. 

 Geraniums and ferns lead me to eriogonum umbella- 

 tum, a little herbaceous perennial with yellow flowers 

 from the North-West of America, and next to him 

 comes calophaca wolgarica, a Siberian, pea-flowered 

 plant that is usually grafted on laburnum. Mine 

 has not thus far distinguished itself, and I have yet 

 to see the blossom. It is praised for its fine flowers 

 and subsequent red seed-pods. Rubus xanthocarpus 

 hangs over this steep part of the rockery. It belongs 

 to North China, and has white flowers and yellow 

 fruits. Another beautiful plant is here : anemonopsis 

 macrophylla, from Japan. It has small drooping 

 white blossoms faintly touched witlj purple. 



One may mark also an andromeda, antirrhinum 

 asarina, biscutella laevigata, callixene polyphylla, the 

 fragrant cedronella, dalibarda repens, dodecatheons 

 of various sorts, a dianthus or two, that hate the 

 shade and ought not to be here, and more saxifrages. 

 I wish I could write a chapter about these last alone, 

 but there is no room to do so. 



About a flight of rough steps that now occur are 



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