revealing a beauty which I have never seen in England, and Effect of 
proving apparently that absence of severe cold and plenty of Climate 
moisture are the more important considerations. In Scotland on Plants 
evidence of the same fact is met with over and over again— 
nowhere have I seen finer bloom on monthly Roses in the 
autumn, and the large fragile flowers of Romneya Coulteri open 
unscathed through August in spite of wind and wet. It is the 
same with all the ordinary garden flowers; they seem to revel 
in the moisture. Annuals in Scotland last twice as long as with 
us; Sweet Peas grow eight feet high without any extra labour 
expended on them, and continue making fresh flowering shoots 
till frost cuts them down, instead of putting all their energies into 
ripening their pods as they do with us! Delphiniums grow 
eight or ten feet high with stalks like firm columns to every 
flowering spike, and Campanula Jactiflora is almost as 
magnificent. 
It is true that I have only had glimpses of these Scotch 
gardens in late July, August, September and October; some 
day I hope to see them in May and June, which are so wonder- 
fully rich in beauty in the South, and almost hope to find that 
they fall below ours then in excellence. One is always told 
that Scotch springs are bad, and that the gardens do not develop 
till late. This year, which certainly was an exceptionally late one, 
I found still in flower in the gardens—the first days of August 
—such plants as Spanish Iris, Campanula persicifolia, Papaver 
pilosum, Cluster Roses, Delphiniums, and many other things 
which had been over with us weeks before, and at the 
same time Helianthemums and Echinops, Eryngiums and 
Phloxes were all opening. This overlapping of the flowers adds 
naturally to the richness of the effect, but soil and moisture play 
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