106 JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
salicifolia, Daphne laureola, Colletia cruciata, Arbutus rubra, 
Aucuba vera nana and A. viridis, Buddleia globosa, Erica 
coccinea and E. melanthera, Cupressus Lawsoniana and C. 
macrocarpa, Cedrus deodara, Hydrangea paniculata grandiflora, 
Deutzia scabra flore pleno, Spiraea confusa, Staphylsea colcbica, 
Pbotinia serrulata, Dracaena indivisa, Escallonia macrantha, 
Eleagnus longipes, Aralia Sieboldi variegata, Aloysia citriodora, 
Chamasrops Fortunei, Yucca gloriosa, Camellia (Adrien Lebrun), 
C. alba compacta, and C. alba plena. 
St. Claee Castle. 
These gardens are close to the sea, about one mile east of 
Ryde. Amongst the most interesting plants we may mention 
Edwardsia (Sopbora) micropliylla, which grows freely on a south 
wall, is quite hardy, and never fails to bloom ; there is also a 
fine specimen of Ilex latifolia over 20 feet high. This plant is 
rather rare in the island. Pbotinia serrulata and glabra are fully 
exposed to the sea-breezes, and do well; Potentillafruticosa does 
best in a sunny position : Diospyros virginiana, which has fruited 
several times ; Eucalyptus Gunnii, which is much hardier than 
E. globulus and E. cordata. In a garden near St. Clare there 
is a specimen of E. Gunnii over 30 feet high, which lives and 
grows vigorously amidst the gales and climatic changes 
experienced on the north coast of the island. 
Mr. Meehan, the gardener at St. Clare, rightly considers it 
folly to plant trees and shrubs of doubtful hardiness in warm 
sheltered positions where the morning sun and the cutting east 
winds can play on them, for by the former they are .hurried into 
growth prematurely, whilst by the latter the tender growth is 
withered or dried up. The cause of the plants dying is generally 
attributed to the unusual severity of the winter or to the tender¬ 
ness of the plant; but this, in nine cases out of ten, is a wrong 
verdict. 
Magnolia grandiflora does well in all parts of the island ; the 
Loquat (Eriobotrya Japonica) is grown with great success at St. 
Clare. 
St. John’s Vicarage^ Ryde. 
The Rev. H. Ewbank possesses perhaps the finest collection 
of rare trees and shrubs to be found in the Garden Isle. Through 
