. My garden in summer . up the rounded bushes of Hypericumpatulum, now covered with large, waxy blossoms of purestyellow, but not so wonderfully thick in texture nor so richin a central boss of stamens as H. aureum, a fine old bushof which lives in a sheltered bay where Fuchsia bicohr isits companion, and is now a mass of crimson and blueflowers, each of its blue petticoats having a central patchor pocket of crimson which perhaps entitles it to itsspecific name. I find it the hardiest of the Fuchsias here,recovering itself quicker and so blooming earlier than and F. gracilis, but
. My garden in summer . up the rounded bushes of Hypericumpatulum, now covered with large, waxy blossoms of purestyellow, but not so wonderfully thick in texture nor so richin a central boss of stamens as H. aureum, a fine old bushof which lives in a sheltered bay where Fuchsia bicohr isits companion, and is now a mass of crimson and blueflowers, each of its blue petticoats having a central patchor pocket of crimson which perhaps entitles it to itsspecific name. I find it the hardiest of the Fuchsias here,recovering itself quicker and so blooming earlier than and F. gracilis, but in most Winters it is cut tothe ground. On the opposite side of the path F. putnilanestles in a nook between the stones, and is charmingnow, full of bloom, and only six inches high. F. retrofkxahas lived for many years in the next pocket, and is almostready to open its first tiny crimson flowers. Even downthis path a few Campanulas have found lodgment, andone is so large and such a good lilac in colour it must not 274. Erynyium . b) tin: (Cactus l).ink. (See p. 274.) As July Ends be cut away with the rest, but left awhile for seed. Bythe time they have all fallen the paths have becomechoked up and resemble a newly-mown meadow, andthe cutting fever having got hold of me, I call for agardener to bring a barrow and clear away as I hackand hew, and I thoroughly enjoy myself, for many of theshrubs need a good trimming. Magnolia stellata will block the path and smother theundergrowth unless a lower ring of boughs are sawnoff, and Aegle sepiaria will poke out someones eyes unlessshortened, so one whole barrow-load this year was com-posed of Magnolia and Orange boughs, some of them solarge that I should have been proud of them a few yearsago if they had represented my largest specimen. A fewdays previously this season I filled a barrow with leavesfrom the hardy Palms, Trachydarpus excelsus, which lookedeven more cruel and sacrilegious a load to go to therubbish heap. But I am re
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