Peaches some woodland glade, perhaps with the stately Cordyline rising 
and their at intervals above it, will have a peculiar fascination in the 
Varieties glinting sunshine; it looks well too with a backing of purple 
Berberis. ‘With these two pink Heathers may be grown the 
white E. Arborea, so often met with and enjoyed in Southern 
Europe, where it clothes steep rocky slopes, or forms an under- 
growth in the woods. In its native sunshine it grows in bushes 
eight to ten feet high, with long, tapering, white sprays, but in 
England it has not proved as hardy as the varieties mentioned 
above, and to flourish at all must have a warm soil and shelter 
from cold winds. 
PEACHES 
A FTER the Almonds come the wonderful pinks of the 
Peaches, which are now also classed under the genus of 
Prunus, and are styled Prunus Persica. 
There are several varieties, the doubles being the most 
effective. Flore roseo pleno and Flore rubro pleno are pink 
and deep rose colour, and there is also a double white variety. 
These remain always rather weakly looking trees, with slender 
branches few and far between. The single form grows more 
freely, but they all need plenty of sunshine, and are never to 
be seen in England in the lovely masses which greet one as the 
train descends from the mountain passes of Italy to the valleys 
of the southern slopes, the flowering branches thrown up like 
pink spray against the blue shadows of the mountains. Or 
they may be seen as a field of pink completing the beauty of 
some old fortified Italian town with square towers rising against 
the snow-clad Alps. 
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