AUGUST 108 



whole bush is aromatic, smelling strongly like highly- 

 refined turpentine. Then comes Xanthoceras sorhifolia, 

 a handsome bush from China, of rather recent intro- 

 duction, vrith saw-edged pinnate leaves and white 

 flowers earlier in the summer, but now forming its 

 bunches of fruit that might easily be mistaken for 

 walnuts with their green shucks on. Here a wide 

 bushy growth of Phloniis fruticosa lays out to the 

 sun, covered in early summer with its stiff whorls 

 of hooded yellow flowers — one of the best of plants 

 for a sunny bank in full sun in a poor soil. A little 

 farther along, and near the path, comes the neat little 

 Deutzia parviflora and another little shrub of fairy- 

 like delicacy, Philadelphus microphallus. Behind them, 

 is Stephanandra flexuosa, beautiful in foliage, and two 

 good St. John's worts, Hypericum aureum and IT. 

 moserianum, and again in front a Cistus of low, spread- 

 ing growth, C. halimifolius, or something near it. One 

 or two favourite kinds of Tree Pseonies, comfortably 

 sheltered by Lavender bushes, fill up the other end 

 of the clump next to the Andromedas. In all spare 

 spaces on the sunny side of the shrub-clump is a 

 carpeting of Megasea ligulata, a plant that looks well 

 all the year round, and gives a quantity of precious 

 flower for cutting in March and April. 



I was nearly forgetting ^sculus macrostachya, now 

 well established among the choice shrubs. It is like 

 a bush Horse-chestnut, but more refined, the white 

 spikes standing well up above the handsome leaves. 



