IRISH GARDENING 



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Eucryphia cordifolia. 



Mr. K. H. Walpole, in sending a photo of 

 Eucryphia cordifoha, says : — The shrub is about 

 six or seven years old. It is planted on sloping- 

 ground facing about south-west, and is well 

 ]H-otected from the north and east. It is now 

 about seven feet high. It never flowered till 

 last year, when about three blossoms made their 

 appearance. 

 This year it has 

 flowered profus- 

 ely. While not 

 as showy as E. 

 pinnatifoha, i t 

 is a very fine 

 shrub, and has 

 the advantage 

 o f being ever- 

 green. The 

 fl o w e r s a r e 

 smaller, but I 

 think neater, 

 and of a purer 

 white ; at any 

 rate, they are 

 very effective 

 against the 

 glossy dark 

 green foliage, 

 a n d , as the 

 llowers begin to 

 show about the 

 ■same time as the 

 fl]owers of E. 

 pinnatifolia be- 

 gin to fall, it is 

 a very welcome 

 addition to the 

 autumn fiower- 

 ine: shrubs. 



Eucryphia 

 pinnatifolia. 



M R . G. X. 

 Smith writes : — 

 T a m sending 

 you a photo 



of a group of "' Lilivun auratum platyphyllum " 

 growing in the Public Park at Warren- 

 ])oint. There are several groups of this Lily 

 planted there some half a dozen years or so ago, 

 wlien the park was laid out, and, beyond receiv- 

 ing an annual heavy mulch of road scrapings, 

 they have received nothing else, but the health 

 :im\ vigour is most remarkal)ie. and when in 



EUCUYPHIA PINNATIKOIJA AT XAKKoW WaTKI 



bloom are worth making a long journey to see. 



Last year they produced ten seed pods, and it is 



notorious, inasmuch as no record can be found 



of Lilium auratum having produced seeds in this 



kingdom before. 



At the present time (September) the various 



varieties of Lilium speciosum (lancifoHum) are 



very fine in the same place. 



I also send you a photo of Eucryphia pinnati- 

 folia growing 

 in the rock 

 garden at Nar- 

 row Water; 

 it is a very fine 

 specimen, 10 

 fee t high, 

 and was, in the 

 month of Au- 

 gust last, one of 

 the sights in a 

 garden o v e r- 

 fi o w i n g A\ith 

 good things. 



Magnolia 

 salicifolia. 



This comes to 

 us from Mount 

 Usher bearing 

 fruits. It is a 

 distinct species 

 with narrow- 

 leaves, rather 

 lance - s h a p ed 

 and distinct in 

 fl p p e a r a n c e 

 from all other 

 Magnolias. 

 Mr. Walpole 

 considers it the 

 most graceful 

 of the genu!^. 

 The flowers are 

 pure white, 



some 3 inches 

 across, and re- 

 sembling those 

 of M. Kobus. 

 Like the latter it 

 is a native of Japan, where manybeautiful shrubs 

 come from, and grows on !Mount Hakkoda at 

 from 2,000 to 3,000 feet. M. saUcifolia is com- 

 jiaratively new, having been introduced only 

 in 1906, and judging from its rapid progress in 

 this country, will soon make a handsonie tree. 

 It is, of course, deciduous, and flowers in early 

 spring before the leaves are produced. 



