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that it serves the purpose of popular identification. 

 Then comes Magnolia stellata, now a perfectly-shaped 

 bush five feet through, a sheet of sweet-scented bloom 

 in April. Much too near it are two bushes of Gistvs 

 eyprius. They were put there as little plants to grow 

 on for a year in the shelter and comfort of the 

 warm bank, but were overlooked at the time they 

 ought to have been shifted, and are now nearly five 

 feet high, and are crowding the Magnolia. I cannot 

 bear to take them away to waste, and they are much 

 too large to transplant, so I am driving in some short 

 stakes diagonally and tying them down by degrees, 

 spreading out their branches between neighbouring 

 plants. It is an upright-growing Cistus that would 

 soon cover a tallish wall-space, but this time it must 

 be content to grow horizontally, and I shall watch to 

 see whether it will flower more freely, as so many 

 things do when trained down. 



Next comes a patch of the handsome Bambtisa 

 Bagamowskii, dwarf, but with strikingly-broad leaves 

 of a bright yellow-green colour. It seems to be a 

 slow grower, or more probably it is slow to grow 

 at first ; Bamboos have a good deal to do underground. 

 It was planted six years ago, a nice little plant in a 

 pot, and now is eighteen inches high and two feet 

 across. Just beyond it is the Mastic bush (jOary- 

 opteris Mastacanthus), a neat, grey-leaved small shrub, 

 crowded in September with lavender - blue flowers, 

 arranged in spikes something like a Veronica; the 



