FOREIGN NOTICES. 



Berbeeis Daewinil — I cannot but regard this novel introduction as one of the nicest evergi-een 

 shrubs in the country, and likely to become a universal favorite. Any dressy, hardy shrubs, 

 which never assume a coarse habit, and which flower freely for months, are of infinite service to 

 the decorator of groimds, whose flower or shrubbery borders are but too apt to appear monoto- 

 nous through lack of variety. Americans and Roses are the two principal groups ; indeed, these 

 withdrawn, the modern shrub border would be poor indeed. Among the peculiarities which this 

 elegant evergreen possesses, is the property of carrying the most beautiful and glossy dark green 

 foliage, nearly all the year; perhaps I ought to have said the whole year. It posseses the nxist 

 graceful habit imaginable ; an airy elegance seems to be its character through every period, and it 

 appears peculiarly adapted for trailing purposes ; the plant being inclined to adapt itself to flat 

 surfaces with the utmost facility. One feature, and that no mean one, remains to be noticed, and 

 that is the property of flowering twice in the season, if not through the whole spring and summer. 

 Such, at least, is the habit of the plant I possess; but I may remark, that such habit has been induced 

 by pinching or stoping the points, in order to produce a closer growth, and to gain cuttings. Two 

 or three suckers came up in succession duiing April and May ; these were stopped when a foot 

 long, and the axillary shoots from these are now hanging laden with their golden cups. The tint 

 of the foliage is akin to that of Escallonia macrantha ; but that is barely hardy, or what a valuable 

 shrub ! Now, this property of being so readily controllable as to its floral habits, is a character of 

 much value, properly acted upon. All such shrubs should be kept classified in the mind of the 

 cultivator, and acted upon at set periods, if possible. I think it not improbable that it may be fit 

 to group with Forsythia and Weigela, as a moderate spring forcer ; and would, in that event, be 

 of much service in the spring boquet. I can even fancy it encircling a floM'cr basket ; its dark 

 glossy green-and-gold would look well round a pile of scarlet Geraniums, scarlet Lobelias, or even 

 the Salvia patens. What a beautiful trellis plant, too, as a division in gardening afi"airs ! — Robert 

 Errington, in Gardeneri Chronicle. 



Berdeius pallida, Benth. — Berberidacece. {Paxt. Fl. Gard.) — A beautiful evergreen shrub, 



growing from five to six feet high, and requiring the shel- 

 ter of a green-house during winter. The flowers, which 

 appear in early spring, are yellow. In the autumn its 

 large loose panicles of deep 

 purple glaucous acid ber- 

 ries give it a very orna- 

 mental appearance. It is 

 very graceful in habit, but 

 its pallid flowers are not 

 produced in great profu- 

 sion. It is a native of 

 Mexico, where it occui's 

 but sparingly. 



BEEBERIS PALLIDA. ' 



Acacia diffusa, Ker. — Leguminacece. {Paxi. Fl. Gard) — A 

 handsome and profuse flowering green-house shrub, with balls of 

 bright yellow flowers, which appear in winter, and short, nar- 

 row, spine-pointed phyllodes or leaves, at the base of which a 

 email oval gland sometimes (not always) appears. Native of Van Dieman's Land, where it is 

 very common. It differs from A. silicidceformis of Cunningham in being altogether much larger, 

 the phoUodes in particular being as large again, and becoming wrinkled when dry or old. (Syn. 

 A. prostrata, Lodd. in Bot. Cab.) 



acacia diffusa. 



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