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rich shade of bluish-green, and does not bear the shade so well as 

 the commoner kinds, so should be placed on the outer skirts of the 

 plantation, where there is a moderate exposure to light and rain. 

 The Dalioon holly is quite at liome in the shade, and makes a noble 

 specimen. 



Box. — A]l the species and varieties of Buxus do well in the 

 shade, and are always beautiful; the variegated kinds are lovely 

 shrubs for giving relief to broad masses of dark foliage, and may 

 be used where scarcely anything else would grow. Most of the 

 kinds in cultivation are varieties of Buxus sempervirens. The elegant 

 large-leaved box, B. haleariciis, forms a round-headed bush, and is 

 well adapted for formal planting on account of its symmetry and 

 fine character, but it is rather tender. The winter of i860 destroyed 

 numbers of it. 



Geislinia. — There arc two or three species of this known, but 

 only one needs mention here, Grislinia littoralis, a fast-growing 

 shrub, with somewhat the habit of a Enoni/mus, but vastly more 

 beautiful ; the leaves of a bright rich green, and as glossy as if 

 varnished. It likes a rich soil, but abhors damp, and is so far tender 

 that it ought never to be planted in an exposed situation. 



EuoNTMUS. — The common coral-berried shrub, Euonymics 

 EuropcBus, will grow in the poorest soil and the darkest position 

 that can be found for it, and still grow well and bear berries 

 abundantly. Unfortunately, it is deciduous, and we are chiefly 

 thinking of evergreens now. E. Japonica, the well-known evergreen 

 which supersedes the holly in London gardens, is a first-rate subject 

 to plant in the shade. Small cuttings put in in July, and kept 

 bushy by nipping out the points of the shoots, will after a year's 

 growth make a good substitute for box edging, where it is found 

 difficult to keep box in good order. The silver and gold varieties 

 do not prosper so well under trees as the common kind, but of the 

 two the silver-striped soonest makes a good-sized bush ; the golden 

 varieties are charming subjects for pot culture. 



CoNiFEES. — There are very few of these that do any good under 

 the shade of trees. The species of Abies, Pinus, Ficea, etc., etc., 

 soon perish, no matter what care be bestowed upon them, if they 

 are planted in such positions as we are now providing for. But we 

 can recommend a few, and those with confidence. In fact, the first 

 we have to name of this section is the best plant known to grow 

 under the shade of trees, and it never attains to such beauty else- 

 where as in deep shadow, and it will take care of itself if planted 

 in fresh loam or clay. This most valuable of the conifers for this 

 purpose is Taxus adpressa, a dwarf-growing yew which grows in the 

 form of a large shallow cup, or with a tabular head regularly spread 

 out, and densely clothed with small leaves of the deepest shade of 

 green. Another good yew for the purpose is Taxus Canadense^ 

 plants of which we had for a period of six years in a position which 

 would almost have starved privets, and they have formed graceful 

 half-weeping trees, with foliage not quite so dark as is usual with 

 yews. In a similar position, the common yew, T. haccata, has several 

 times perished, and the Irish yew has done no good. Two more 



