Western quarters are elsewhere in the Pyrenees or along the shores of the 
Flora. Mediterranean, are to be found in the West and South-West 
The Atlantic of Ireland, will not, I think, be news to most people. That 
typ 
e several of these should have entirely declined to establish them- 
selves in England, despite the fact that Cornwall at all events 
might be expected to offer an irresistible halting-place, is also 
known, and is a fact not without interest and piquancy. Of this 
particular group of plants the Arbutus of Kerry (Arbutus unedo) 
stands in point of size easily first, and as regards other qualifica- 
tions certainly not last. Next to it come, perhaps, the three 
important Heaths—E rica mediterranea, Erica Mackaii, and 
Dabeocia polifolia. Three Ferns—Trichomanes radicans, Adi- 
antum Capillus-Veneris, and Asplenium lanceolatum. One 
Orchis—Aabenaria intacta. "Two Saxifrages—the absurdly- 
named “London Pride” (Saxifraga umbrosa), and its nearest of 
kin, the kidney-leaved Saxifrage. If to these ten are added the 
beautiful, large-flowered Pinguicula of South Kerry and Cork 
(Pinguicula grandiflora) our list, for gardening purposes, will 
I think, be about complete. 
It is when we turn from a mere enumeration of these 
to the question of their cultivation that trouble begins! 
True, several—the three Heaths, for instance —are readily 
obtainable from your nurseryman—for a consideration. To 
transplant them out of their own homes, even if it be toa garden 
at no great distance, is, however, for some reason a curiously 
difficult feat. Thus the St Dabeoc Heath (Dabeocia polifolia) 
may literally be called the Heather of Connemara, the high- 
lying bogs and mountain slopes of which are often completely 
covered by it for a distance of miles. Ask it to allow itself to 
be moved to a garden, no matter how near at hand, and its long, 
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