Subtropical Vegetation
The major Cornish contrast, of course, is the dourness, nakedness and dullness of its uplandish granite backbone and the vegetative lushness and sappiness of its pockets, Willows and winding valleys. St. Just-in- Roseland is an example in point. The church lies at the bottom of a hole facing an inlet of the spacious Roads. Trees spread an expansive shide out of proportion to their boles ; bulbous palms grow wild ; the fuchsias and hydrangeas in the down-rushing churchyard- are as rank al elder in an English hedgerow ; bamboos form dense thickets ; montbretia flows down the slope as thick as grass ; acanthus sprawls its Corinthian leaves over yards of hidden soil ; a magnificent beech is neighboured by a
New Zealand strawberry tree Britain here is in two mindswhether her proper place is Ultima or. the Mediterranean. The decorous
English churchyard might be a COntinent away.
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