XXXVIII 

 SOME RARER OR MORE TENDER SHRUBS 



IN certain favoured quarters of our country there 

 grow shrubs unknown to the majority of British 

 gardens. Along the sunny South Coast, in certain 

 warm glens of Devonshire and Cornwall, in the moist 

 and- equable temperature of western and southern Ireland, 

 rare settlers from all quarters of the earth make them- 

 selves quite at home, living in the open all the year 

 round and displaying brilliant colouring and quaint 

 forms unfamiliar to the general eye. And it is well 

 that they should be generally reviewed even by those 

 whose gardens lack some of nature's special gracious- 

 ness, for it is by no means certain that many of 

 them, if better known, might not be far more 

 generally grown than they are, given a little 

 humouring and sheltering. Many a beautiful shrub 

 is condemned off-hand as not " hardy" when it has 

 never been properly given a chance to show its stamina ; 

 many a rare one will live in a warm angle, partly 

 screened, maybe, overhead by trees, even in a garden 

 which for the most part cannot be described as warm 



and sheltered. 



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