104 WOOD AND GARDEN 



On the cooler side of the clump is a longish plant- 

 ing of dwarf Andromeda, precious not only for its 

 beauty of form and flower, but from the fine winter 

 colouring of the leaves, and those two useful Spiraeas, 

 S. Thunhergi, with its countless little starry flowers, 

 and the double prunifolia, the neat leaves of whose 

 long sprays turn nearly scarlet in autumn. Tlien 

 there comes a rather long stretch of Artemisia [stel- 

 leriana, a white-leaved plant much like Gitieraria 

 maritima, answering just the same purpose, but per- 

 fectly hardy. It is so much like the sUvery Cineraria 

 that it is difficult to remember that it prefers a cool 

 and even partly-shaded place. 



Beyond the long ridge that forms the shrub- 

 clump is another, parallel to it and only separated 

 from it by a path, also in the form of a long low 

 bank. On the crown of this is the double row of 

 cob-nuts that forms one side of the nut-alley. It 

 leaves a low sunny bank that I have given to various 

 Briar Roses and one or two other low, bushy kinds. 

 Here is the wild Burnet Rose, with its yellow-white 

 single flowers and large black hips, and its garden 

 varieties, the Scotch Briars, double white, flesh-coloured, 

 pink, rose, and yellow, and the hybrid briar, Stanwell 

 Perpetual. Here also is the fine hybrid of Bosa rugosa, 

 Madame George Bruant, and the lovely double Rosa 

 Ituida, and one or two kinds of small bush Roses from 

 out-of-the-way gardens, and two wild Roses that have 

 for me a special interest, as I collected them from 



