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jealous, will forgive this long quotation extracted by a 

 sincere admirer, though unknown fellow-gardener. 



Since writing the above I have been sent another 

 letter from a January ' Scotsman ' of this year (1899) 

 The opening sentence is so original and suggestive for 

 anyone who has a garden capable of being easily extended 

 that I quote it as it stands : ' My garden having become 

 quite filled up, I have for the last few years taken to 

 enclosing bits of rough ground inside the policies (or the 

 domain, as they would call it in Ireland), and have gone 

 somewhat enthusiastically into shrubs. I have now 

 three of these small enclosures, and each one seems more 

 or less to suit some particular class of plant. My 

 " Fantasy " is hard and gravelly, and suits the Genista 

 and Citisus tribes very well. My " Eiviera " is very 

 sunny and, with good soil, and in it I grow my rarest 

 exotics ; and " America," my latest creation, being more 

 peaty, damp, and shady, like a wee bit of the back-woods, 

 has been given over to the so-called American plants 

 Rhododendrons, Azaleas, Andromedas, Kalmias, Heaths, 

 and, besides these, Magnolias, Bamboos, and very many 

 other things ; so many, indeed, that besides the sixty 

 Azaleas which fill a bed in the centre, there are a hundred 

 and seventy kinds of rare plants in it, gathered from 

 most of the Temperate portions of our globe ; and, with one 

 or two exceptions, I must say they appear very promis- 

 ing, considering my little " America " was only colonised 

 in April last.' He then details his triumphs : ' My 

 greatest this summer was my flowering abundantly the 

 rare and beautiful Chilian shrub the Crinodendron 

 hookeri. I got it from Mr. Smith at Newry, and planted 

 it in my " Eiviera " in the spring of 1897 ; it stood last 

 winter well, and early in June it blossomed freely. We 

 have but few shrubs with crimson flowers, the blooms of 

 so many of them being either white or yellow. But the 



