IRISH GARDENING 



VOLUME I 



No. 46 



A MONTHLY JOURNAL DEVOTED TO THE 



ADVANCEMENT OF HORTICULTURE AND 



ARBORICULTURE IN IRELAND 



DECEMBER 



New Plants from China. 



By F. W. Moore, M.A.. Director Royal Botanic Gardens, Glasnevin. 



MR VICARV GIBBS' article on the recent 

 introductions of trees and shrubs from 

 China will awaken keen interest in 

 all Irish gardens, and 

 the numerous plants 

 cited by him will no 

 doubt be noted for 

 future additions to our 

 choice Irish collections 

 of trees and shrubs 

 It is very good of Mr. 

 Vicary Gibbs to fur- 

 nish readers of Irish 

 Gardening with early 

 and reliable informa- 

 tion about plants 

 which he has, but 

 which as yet are not 

 available for the gene- 

 ral public. He cer- 

 tainly has in no wax 

 exaggerated the re 

 suits of Mr. Wilson- 

 explorations ; on the 

 contrary, he has been 

 very moderate in all 

 his statements. It will 

 give some idea of the 

 vast accession of novel- 

 ties when I state that 

 there are at present 

 at Glasnevin young 

 vigorous plants of no 



less than sixty-nine (6g) genera of trees and shrubs 

 raised from Chinese seeds, and over 250 distinct 

 species. Further apparently sound seed of 

 additional genera have been sown, but as these 

 have not yet germinated 1 do not include them 



(One of Wils 



V'llHKMM Kllll 

 n's new Chinese Plani 



in the list of introductions. The following 

 Is the list of genera of which there are living 

 plants : — Actinidia, .Azalea, Berberis, Buddleia, 

 Cffisalpinia, Carrieria, 

 Catalpa, Celastrus, 

 Cercis, Clerodendron, 

 C o c c u 1 u s, Coriaria, 

 C o r n u s, Corylopsis, 

 Cotoneaster, Cudrania, 

 (.'niuiinghamid Davi- 

 dia, Deutzia, Diervilla, 

 Elscholtzia, Eleuthero- 

 coccus, Euonymus, 

 Euptelea, Forsythia, 

 l-raxinus, C r e w ia, 

 llale-sia, Heteromeles, 

 ll\drangea, Hyperi- 

 V inn, Idesia, Ilex, Indi- 

 l; of era, Jasminum, 

 Keteeleria, Lespedeza, 

 l.indera, Liriodendron, 

 l.onicera, Magnolia, 

 Xothopanax, Pieonia, 

 Tifderia, Philadelphus, 

 riiotinia, Pinus, Pitto- 

 sporum, Piplanthus, 

 I'oliothyrsis, Poten- 

 lilla, Prunus, Ptero- 

 c a r y a , Pteroceltis, 

 Quercus, Rhododen- 

 dron, Rosa, Sarcococca, 

 Schizandra, Schizoph- 

 rama, Smilax, Sorbus, 

 Stachyurus, Staphylea, Sta;siransva, Styrax, 

 Syringa, Vitis, and Xylosina. 



The development and behaviour of several of 

 these will be watched with much interest, as 

 we have had so far no opportunity of judging- of 



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 ptiotogiaptied at Gla^^ 



