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served by making use of many beautiful 

 flowering shrubs, instancing in particular, 

 the Andromeda floribunda as worthy of 

 consideration in this respect. A beautiful 

 plant beyond doubt, but so long as each 

 Andromeda costs 3s. 6d., it is hardly 

 possible to treat such a proposition 

 seriously. 



It should hardly be necessary to point 

 out that a plant which makes admirable 

 under-cover in one district, may fail to do 

 the same under different conditions, yet 

 many neglect this obvious fact; what is 

 wanted is not the many plants that will 

 survive, but the one or two that will 

 grow lustily and spread apace, and only 

 a careful study of soil and climate will 

 disclose their names. For instance in our 

 mild climate of Galloway, three plants 

 in particular, to wit Spircea Douglasii, 

 Xantrisa apifolia and Rosa serotina seem 

 to have all the attributes of the best 

 under-cover, yet I would be slow to re- 

 commend them as certain to do as well 

 elsewhere. 



