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wonderful collection, not in single plants or pairs, but in fine clumpi 
and beds of dozens or scores, and the stock of Lilies is estimated at 
100,000. 
Exceedingly beautiful at the present time is a mound covered with 
also surmounts a mound, and with the lighter yellow but bright 
Genista hispanica furnishes a welcome mass of colour. A solitary but 
well developed plant of moderate size of a deep red Japanese Maple 
lights up another portion of the open garden, while in the woodland we 
Fig. 61.-EXOCHORDA GRANDIFLORA. 
JPhlox setacea varieties, purple, pink, and white, from the late Mr. 
Nelson’s Aldborough collection, large patches densely covered with 
flowers, looking at a distance as if clear well defined colours had been 
laid on liberally from an artist’s brush. A grand bush of double Furze 
have delightful glimpses of brilliant Azaleas of the Mollis type and rich 
Rhododendrons. Numbers of the finest named Rhododendrons have 
been planted, all with too close a resemblance to caucasicuin being 
rigidly excluded, or if found are destroyed. They were originally 
