THE GARDENS OF WARLEY PLACE.
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describe. Libocedrus microlepis, usually so tender, passed safely
through the hard winter of 1906; Juniperus oxycedrus also.
Cytisus pilosus from the shores of the Mediterranean is growing
near C. spinosus, and not far off is Colletia spinosa, with its
formidable prickles, Eugenia Ugni, which flowers and fruits, and
the rare E. apiculata.
Ceanothus rigidus, which is rarely seen in the Eastern Counties,
and a large bush of Andromeda japonica, scarcely twelve inches
above the water-line, flowers more freely than in many a milder
climate. Azara microphylla grows twenty feet high, and in
spring perfumes the air with its vanilla-like scent.
Amongst the Alpine life on the sunny slopes, between large
boulders of rocks, are to be found clumps of Saxifrages, such
also the encrusted species of this genus. Masses of Campanulas,
such as C. portenschlagiana, C. garganica, and C. hirsuta, with
the more delicate C. raineri, zoysii, cenisia, and C. Warley. A
large collection of Achilleas, noteworthy amongst them being
A. serbica, kellereri, griesbacki, huteri, and holocericia. Litho-
spermums, such as L. prostratum, petraeum, intermedium, rosmarini-
folium, with the shy Pyrenean L. gastoni. That charming little
dwarf, Spiraea decumbens, not often to be met with, here makes
a clump some two feet across.
Acantholimon, Daphnes, and the small varieties of Cytisus
grow over boulders, whilst Armeria caespitosa is one of the plants
which thrive unusually well here. A plant of Genista horrida,
three feet in diameter, looks as comfortable as in its native home
at Couzon (Rhone).
Here, too, in fitting season grow Drabas, Alpine Phlox, and
Aubretias in well-established masses, and the beautiful Oxalis
enncaphylla from the Falkland Islands, which blossoms freely
and increases, and is apparently thoroughly at home in every
way, excepting in its failure to keep to its regular number of
leaflets, which are as often as not too few or too many.
Oxalis lobata is rarely seen in gardens, being a Chilian plant
which would scarcely be considered sufficiently hardy, but at
Warley it has accommodated itself perfectly to the climate, and
bears bright yellow flowers, large in proportion to the length of
its stems. Here are Origanum pulchrum, O. tournefortii from
Greece, and O. dictamnus from Crete. There are about thirty
different species of Erodium, some of them, such as E.