The creamy-white, rounded edge of the approaching clouds came and coalesced, spread and mushroomed.

Here and there, also, I caught flying glimpses of some unknown plant bearing a long upright raceme of creamy-white flowers.

They are individually small, of a creamy-white colour, and produced in long, umbellate racemes, and which when fully developed, from their weight and terminal position, are tilted gracefully to one side.

The flowers are individually small, but the whole head, which is creamy-white, is very effective, and contrasts strangely with the golden sheen of this beautiful shrub.

I. Aquifolium handsworthensis has elliptic-oblong spiny leaves, with a creamy-white margin and marbled with gray.

Although one of our commonest shrubs, this Privet can hardly be passed unnoticed, for the spikes of creamy-white flowers, that are deliciously scented, are both handsome and effective.

The small, creamy-white flowers of this plant are not particularly showy, but the scarlet berries are more conspicuous in September and October.

One of the handsomest species, with very large, glossy, evergreen leaves, and deliciously odoriferous, creamy-white flowers, that are often fully 6 inches across.

M. PARVIFLORA, from Japan, with creamy-white, fragrant flowers, that are globular in shape, is a very distinct and attractive species, but cannot generally be relied upon as hardy.

There is a variegated variety, P. japonica elegantissima, with leaves clearly edged with creamy-white, and flushed with pink.

This is a handsome free-growing shrub, of often 10 feet in height, with large, creamy-white flowers, that are rendered all the more conspicuous by the crimson-red stamens.

This is of recent introduction, and is a decided acquisition, producing in summer large and dense clusters of creamy-white flowers.

Attired in rich, creamy-white satin, the corsage shaded with folds of delicate lace, with coral ornaments on her neck and arms, and with the heavy masses of her dark hair interwoven with coral beads, she looked extremely beautiful, and was pronounced by the ladies present to be "handsome and stylish-looking, but decidedly dull."

A fine, autumn-blooming plant, bearing long spikes of fragrant creamy-white flowers and curiously-spotted stems.

When young the buds are a vivid red, changing to orange-yellow, and when fully expanded the flowers are creamy-white.

"Is it made of plant-down, too?" "Noof fine grasses, rootlets, and bits of bark," said the Doctor; "and in a few days it will hold three or four creamy-white eggs, prettily wreathed around one end with dark-brown spots.