The Canary single, brilliant scarlet, daisy-like flowers are very effective, and 
Island Fern when a dozen or more are open at the same time upon a plant, 
a brilliant display is afforded. 
The New Zealand Celmisias, with white blossoms, are at 
home in the rock garden, and the blue Chilian Crocus, 
Tecophilea cyanocrocus, may here and there be found spreading 
its deep azure over the bed. 
Woodwardia radicans, the great fern from the Canary 
Isles, grows to perfection, and, at Trebah, fronds ten feet long 
have been produced. 
Cornwall is particularly rich in rare and tender shrubs 
and climbers, and, as the majority of these are to be seen 
elsewhere in England only under glass protection, the gardens 
are particularly interesting to those who are anxious to study 
them growing in the open air. Space only permits of a few 
of these being mentioned. Abelia floribunda (Mexico) —a 
beautiful evergreen shrub, bearing clusters of drooping pink 
flowers about three inches in length. Generally grown against 
a wall, but occasionally as a bush. Abutilon vitifolium 
(Chili)—evergreen, sometimes attaining a height of twenty feet, — 
bearing in June lavender blossoms three inches across: there 
is also a white variety. -dnopterus glandulosa ('Tasmania)— 
evergreen, bearing long, erect racemes of white, cup-shaped 
flowers. There is a splendid specimen, twelve feet in height, 
at Tresco, Isles of Scilly. Bowkeria Gerardiana (South Africa)— 
a very rare evergreen, bearing panicles of white, calceolaria-like 
flowers an inch across. Buddleia Colvilei (Sikkim)—a fine 
species, bearing flower-clusters, often a foot in length, of rose- 
crimson flowers an inch across. Callistemon salignus (Australia) 
—evergreen, with crimson, bottle-brush flowers. There is a 
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