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priceless rock- work plants, in two new rarities, Eumiymus 

 radicans, microscopically minute — like a woody, frailer 

 version of Helocine Soleirolii — trailing over the stones; and 

 Cotoneaster pyrenaica, which creeps rigidly down the rock, 

 a small-leaved, dense-leaved plant, firmly appressed to 

 soil or stone as it goes, after the delightful style of Veronica 

 chathamica, loveliest of cliff-hugging shrubs, quite hardy, 

 too ; evergreen, with spikes of delicate soft blue blossoms 

 late in the season. Nor must I forget Cydonia Maulei, 

 the Rock-Garden Pyrus, a dainty, straggling shrub for 

 rock- work, with big flowers, scarlet with the sad scarlet 

 of stale blood, and round fertile quince-fruits. Another 

 wild quince is the Japanese Toringo, Pyrus prostrata — 

 or Cydonia prostrata — a frank trailer, winding in and 

 out of grass or hedgerow in Japan, with flowers of a 

 healthier, richer crimson than those of Maulei. The 

 little rock-willows, too, trail firmly over the line of the 

 rocks. I have at times imported them accidentally, and 

 now they have made wide masses in many corners of the 

 garden. I believe mine to be alpina and herbacea; they 

 are particularly charming when their fluffy silver cater- 

 pillars emerge. 



Of the Brooms to be cultivated there are many to be 

 treated of in their due place. Here I will only say that 

 Cytisus purpureus is a fine little shrub for rock-work, 

 with arches of lilac, rosy or white flowers according to the 

 varieties. It grows about two feet high, and spreads with 

 reasonable freedom. Heicff'elianus, rumelicus, nyssanus, 

 anxanticus are novelties from seed, to be proved, and not 

 yet showing signs of being thrilling ; our own very rare 

 native, pilosus, is an invaluable, densely close trailer, 

 making a cascade of gold over the rocks. The commoner 

 tinctorius (I am herding Cytisus and Genista recklessly 

 under one name), with its double form, is pretty for a 

 rough corner; and sagittalis, prostrate, epiphyllum-like 



