296 BOG PLANTS 



mentioned in Chapter XXII. All the shrubs named below are 

 native to our bogs. 



SHRUBS OF THE HEATH FAMILY 



Wild rosemary, Andromeda polifolia. 

 Rhodora, Azalea Canadensis. 

 White Azalea, Azalea, viscosa. 

 Dwarf Cassandra, Cassandra calyculata. 

 High-bush huckleberry, Gaylussacia frondosa. 

 Sheep laurel, Kalmia glauca. 

 Labrador tea, Ledum latifolium. 

 Deerberry, Vaccinium stamineum. 

 High-bush blueberry, Vaccinium corymbosum. 



OTHER BOG-LOVING SHRUBS 



Button-bush, Cephalanthus occidentalis . 



Black alder, Ilex verticillata. 



Long-stalked winterberry, Nemopanthes Canadensis. 



Red choke-berry, Pyrus arbutifolia. 



Virginia willow, I tea Virginica. 



CREEPERS AND GROUND COVERS 



Since Sir Henry Yorke's bog garden is naturally composed of 

 peaty soil he could choose nothing more appropriate for covering 

 the ground beneath shrubs than heaths of all kinds. These ericas 

 and dabcecias are evergreen, and have a considerable variety in 

 colour and season of bloom. 



Another ground cover which he uses in great quantity is Lon- 

 don pride (Saxifraga umbrosa), which I have praised elsewhere for 

 its evergreen rosettes and its airy masses of dainty, white flowers. 

 Most of the famous saxifrages cultivated in England are out 



