very 



foil! 



e> 



handsome evergreen bush 



strong 



th a 



bright 



shining 



hich emits a 



but grateful odour when 



bruised ; they will not bear the climate of London without 

 protection from frost ; but if trained to a wall, and sheltered 

 by a roof of thatch in winter, they succeed perfectly : in 

 short, they are about as hardy as myrtles. 



Of these, the subject of the accompanying Plate is one 

 which has been in this country seven or eight years 



we 



never saw it in flower till last year, when it blossomed 



abundantly upon a south wall 

 cultural Society in July 



pendens, but differs 



sharp-pointed, and its flowers octand 



It is 



ally 



Garden of the Horti 

 rly related to D. de 



being usually 

 while D. de- 



pendens, on the contrary, has its leaves almost always very 

 blunt, often very little toothed, and chiefly decandrous. 



It is true that passages from 



the other may be d 



covered ; but the plants are so different when growing side 



by side, that we 



think it right to combine them 



and where is the genus of which the species do not run the 

 one into the other ? 



Propagated by cuttings of the ripe wood struck in sand 

 under a bell-glass in a gentle heat, 

 soil 



It will grow in any 

 or situation which is dry in the summer, and well 



drained in winter. 



It would probably succeed in the cre- 



vices of rocks in Devonshire or Cornwall. 



J. L. 







