MAY 69 



hybrid of B. Aucklandii, raised by Mr. A. Waterer. 

 The trusses are astoundingly large, and the indi- 

 vidual blooms large and delicately beautiful, like 

 small richly-modelled lilies of a tender, warm, white 

 colour. It is quite hardy south of London, and un- 

 questionably desirable. Its only ault is leggy growth ; 

 one year's growth measures twenty-three inches, but 

 this only means that it should be planted among other 

 bushes. 



The last days of May see hardy Azaleas in beauty 

 Any of them may be planted in company, for all their 

 colours harmonise. In this garden, where care is taken 

 to group plants well for colour, the whites are planted 

 at the lower and more shady end of the group ; next 

 come the pale yellows and pale pinks, and these are 

 followed at a little distance by kinds whose flowers are 

 of orange, copper, flame, and scarlet-crimson colour- 

 ings; this strong-coloured group again softening off 

 at the upper end by strong yellows, and dying away 

 into the woodland by bushes of the common yellow 

 Azalea pontica, and its variety with flowers of larger^ 

 size and deeper colour. The plantation is long in 

 shape, straggling over a space of about half an acre, 

 the largest and strongest -coloured group being in 

 an open clearing about midway in the length. The 

 ground between them is covered with a natural growth 

 of the wUd Ling (Oalluna) and Whortleberry, and the 

 small, white-flowered Bed-straw, with the fine-bladed 

 Sheep's-fescue grass, the kind most abundant in heath- 



