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an aroid that comes from Kamtchatka, which bears large canary- 
yellow flowers. 
A collection of climbers clothes the lower part of the roof. Here 
grow and flower most luxuriantly the New Zealand clematis (C. in- 
Climbers divisa) and the South European honeysuckle ( Lonicera 
Etrusca ), a pair of the most beautiful climbing plants 
ever introduced to Great Britain. There are, besides, species of Vitis 
and Rubus, roses, Berberidopsis corallina from Chile, and the red and 
white Lapagerias. 
The octagons are not well adapted for plant-growing ; their value 
is chiefly architectural, and they serve at once to separate and to 
connect the three large structures. In the north octagon there is 
grown a collection of formally clipped shrubs, such as bay, olive, 
Pittosporum, myrtle, and Euonymus. The south octagon is given 
up exclusively to the orange tree and its allies. 
