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fiore alba only began to expand on July 16th. For those 

 who like species, Azaleas Occidentalis and Arborescens are 

 both very interesting. ... . 



' 1 have a great love of Heaths, but have not got 

 many of them. After considerable trouble I got some 

 good plants of Erica arborea from Newry, which we had 

 so much admired on the hillsides of Corsica. They seem 

 to do very well here, and two of them bloomed this 

 summer ; but whether they will grow into trees in my 

 " Kiviera," as they do on the shores of the Mediterranean, 

 I cannot yet tell. Erica australis, Erica mediterranea, 

 and the Cornish Heath (.27. vagans) are, like the Hydran- 

 geas, delightful in late autumn, and so is the white 

 Irish DaboRcia polifolia, of which we can hardly have 

 too much 



' I have, I think, merely alluded to the Genistas, and 

 most people know, besides the common yellow, the White 

 Portugal and the Yellow Spanish so-called Broom, which 

 is, however, not really a Genista, but a Spartium, though 

 it looks so like a Broom, and is very showy late in the 

 season, when the Common Broom is over. The low- 

 growing real Genista hispanica is a very useful little plant. 

 Those who have not got the Broom with the crimson lip 

 (G. andreana), nor the cream-coloured hybrid (G. prczcox), 

 should not fail to get them both, as they are an immense 

 acquisition to our hardy flowering shrubs. 



' To-day I have been reminded of a nice plant of 

 Eugenia ugni, a kind of Myrtle which has stood out 

 some years against the terrace wall of my garden, and 

 which bloomed and ripened its fruit so well that I have 

 lately sent a sample of its fragrant berries to a friend in 

 Switzerland. The scent and flavour remind one of both 

 Strawberries and Pineapple with a slight mixture of Bog 

 Myrtle.' I hope no one will confound this description of 

 a Scotch garden with what I am able to do in dry Surrey. 



